BRAD THIELE

1,938 times  | 2014
newspaper clippings and packing tape on paper roll
18"w x 360"l

-all instances of 'New York'-- including variations, i.e. NY, N.Y., Ny & ny-- cut-out and taped down
in order of appearance from a single Sunday edition of the New York Times

344 times (the first 6 pages available above)  | 2014
newspaper clippings and packing tape on 14 of 40 pages in a pocket notebook
6"h x 4"w

-all instances of 'New York'-- including variations, i.e. NY, N.Y., Ny & ny-- cut-out and taped down
in order of appearance from a single Monday edition of the New York Times

catching a wave  | 2014
altered catalog page
15"h x 18"w

one minute  | 2014- present
inkjet on paper; open edition for continual distribution
2.75"h x 2.125"w; opens to 4.25"w

you mayk me read  | 2014
altered magazine page
11"h x 8.5"w

like, call me Ishmael  | 2014
inkjet on paper; open edition
5.5"h x 4.25"w; opens to 8.5"w

-modern literary works are previewed on books.google.com. those with a first page containing a single appropriately used 'like' are
transcribed to include an excessive amount of the colloquially misused words 'like, basically, kind of & you know'.

some more things  | 2014
felt-tip marker on magazine page
9.5"h x 8.5"w

birth of an idiom  | 2014
pen on paper
12"h x 9"w

 chaps (from the desperados series)  | 2014
inkjet and paper on art auction catalog pages
dim. variable: 10"-12"h x 6"-15"w

-altered catalog pages of Richard Prince's 'Cowboys' series, of which Prince removed all text from Marlboro tobacco campaign images. desperados touches on the Eagles' 1973 hit song to turn Prince's expression of the heroic American landscape back into everyday, such as an errant wardrobe malfunction.

i was a cloud...i am no more  | 2014
collage on 11 index cards
4"h x 4"w; each: 4"h x 6"w

-adapted from yoko ono's missive to john lennon, 'i was a cloud...' was a collage on 11 index cards turned postcards,
 the first two having been sent to some I was seeing before deciding to refrain from sending the remaining 9