ERIKA ROTHENBERG (B. 1950) Launch/Lunch, 2023

ERIKA ROTHENBERG (B. 1950) Launch/Lunch, 2023 signed (on the reverse) acrylic and vinyl letters on panel 16 x 16 in. 40.6 x 40.6 cm. Footnotes: Provenance Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles Exhibited Los Angeles, Charlie James Gallery, Ahorita!, 8 July-2 September 2023 'Using words, images and diverse media, from painting to drawing to photography to large-scale public artworks and museum installations, I am passionately interested in exposing American 'exceptionalism' (and its hubris, corruption, privilege, and prejudice) in a non-didactic and humorous way, with an intersectional feminist edge. There are recurring themes in my work such as how proud we humans are of what we think up, and how we use those ideas to destroy each other. My work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum, DC; Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany; and is in many private and public collections. Freedom of Expression National Monument, a giant megaphone in New York City, sponsored by Creative Time in 1984 and 2004, was featured at the Museum of The City Of New York 2017-18. House of Cards, my 1992 MoMA, New York exhibition of 90 satirical greeting cards, was recreated at Zolla Lieberman Gallery Chicago in 2015; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles in 2016; and Susan Inglett Gallery, NY in 2018.' -Erika Rothenberg For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing