Sign O the Times or Buck-in-Hamm-Palace

Sign O the Times or Buck-in-Hamm-Palace

September 5 - October 5, 2025

LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall,

The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, NY.

Curated by William Cordova

An exhibition focused on examples of rudimentary printing techniques with innovative image-transfer methods; frottage, drypoint and saltwater etching, embossing, transfers, mono prints, etc. Techniques that pertain to creative self- sufficiency-empowerment and the uncompromising will to problem solve, possibly disrupting socially accepted norms and customs out of necessity or a response to the tenor of the times. A large quantity of historical print examples of such work can be attributed to posters made by OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, 1966-1989), Havana, Cuba, Bestias collective (1984-1987), Lima, Peru and Kearney Street Workshop (1963-2014), San Francisco, CA to name a few.‍

“ A sight cut across by the rumble of drums and the raucous cries of insane tables at grips with the fury of physical laws more intolerant than a wagon of Jesuits painted in two colors”
- Benjamin Péret (Sign of the Times, 1959)‍

Participating artists:
Purvis Young, Mark Bradford, Tony Fitzpatrick, Yanira Collado, Elia Alba, Wardell Milan, Edra Soto, Juana Valdes, N. Masani Landfair, Rachel Eng, lou anne colodny, Andre Leon Gray, Onajide Shabaka, Mark Gibson, Nathaniel Donnett, Charles Humes Jr.

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