On November 14, I went to the Whitney Museum and saw the Steve Wolfe exhibit "Steve Wolfe on Paper". At first I was very confused by the works because I thought it was just framed book covers, but then I went back and read about the prints. His use of trompe l'oeil is amazing! The book covers and records look ridiculously like the real thing, but they're screenprints and other types of prints. He got all the details down to worn binding, bent corners, and scratched off color. The records looked like actual records you could put right on a record player and listen to. I was super impressed by Wolfe's works and am curious about these types of prints because I know very little about them.A series I saw at the Whitney (in the permanent collection) that really stuck with me was Duane Michals's Things are Queer from 1973. It's a series of 9 gelatin silver prints that start (and end) with a dingy bathroom. The black and white images are creepy and stark but are clear in what they are trying to get across. I love the way you just naturally move from one image to the next, and when you get to the last one you stop and have to go back to the beginning. And then you have to go through them all over again. The images work well together and have a beginning and an end, but at the same time are like a continuous loop.
