Artwork Description
Komar Melamid – Lenin at the Palladium 10: Art as Catalyst Alternative Museum Portfolio
Dimensions: 26 x 26 paper
Year: 1992
Medium: Screenprint
Edition: 76/100
In response to serious cuts in public funding in 1992, ten artists contributed silkscreens to benefit the Alternative Museum in New York.
Like the museum, the artists represented in this box set of prints address social and humanitarian issues in their imagery, which still resonate in today cultural landscape. Subjects include Lenin lying in state (Komar & Melamid), police-state abuse (Leon Golub) and Jeffersonian ironies (Luis Jimenez).
Includes work by: Ida Applebroog, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Leon Golub, Luis Jimenez, Jerry Kearns, Komar and Melamid, Adrian Piper, Ben Sakoguchi, Andres Serrano, Lorna Simpson, Robert Storr
Publisher – The Alternative Museum, New York, New York
Printer – Mission Grafica, San Francisco