A Spectacle and Nothing Strange By Eve Fowler at MOMA

A Spectacle and Nothing Strange
All Photos By Gail

In 2011,  American artist Eve Fowler began A Spectacle and Nothing Strange, which quotes fragments of Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking feminist prose works Tender Buttons (1914) and How to Write (1931) on twenty–one posters produced by the Colby Poster Printing Company.

Anyone Telling Anything

Colby’s posters – known for their block-printed text over saccharine color gradients – were a common part of the Los Angeles landscape from the company’s founding, 60 years ago, until it closed, in 2012. Fowler’s posters were made using fonts and colors selected at random by the printer.

There are the ones who do see me

A Spectacle and Nothing Strange By Eve Fowler is on view at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC through September 28th, 2014.

A Difference of Very Little Difference

Very Different but Much More

Wide Shot

It is So

The Difference is Spreading

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