This is 2-UP

2-UP is included in the exhibition Millenium Magazines @ the Museum of Modern Art Library. February 20 - May 14, 2012.

2-UP #9: Doug Ashford + Chip Hughes Launch Party @ Callicoon Fine Arts (124 Forsyth Street, NY, NY), Sunday, Jan. 22, 6-8PM. Click HERE to read the press release.

Montly subscriptions to the second series of 2-UP posters are now available.

Ashford and Hughes each work with representations--images and texts--in an abstract idiom. Their collaborative edition will explore this overlap in their work through the material constraints of a two-sided poster. Utilizing the transparency of newsprint when held to the light, each side of the poster may be viewed both singly and through the other. Hughes has created a text formed by personal snapshots for one side of the poster. The text, described by the negative space between these re-photographed images, appears backwards, and is therefore only properly readable from Ashford's side. Continuing the play of layering and legibility, Ashford's side is comprised of an image from The New York Times: a search party's discovery of the bodies of three missing boys found in the trunk of a car, with the story's facts obscured by rectangular forms. Hughes's text, "Like Their Like They're," lies somewhere between description and condolence in relationship to this image of helplessness.

The posters will be displayed in the windows of Callicoon Fine Arts for the project's launch, allowing for viewing from and through both sides. Giving the effect of a store closed for renovation, a public space temporarily made private, the papered windows will also further the vacillating space of the poster itself. This vacillation is invoked not only in the poster's construction, but also in the back and forth between Ashford reworking of the public forum of the newspaper and Hughes's reassembly of private snapshots, and the manner in which each side of the poster affirms and negates the other.