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Go (in the shape of a stop sign)

1970

Canadian, active 1966-1978

N.E. Thing Co. was an influential Vancouver-based collective which remains a figurehead of a particular genre of Northwest conceptual art. As part of the collaboration, Baxter made many works using signs placed in the landscape to question our relationship to the world around us. This work has a similarly disorienting effect in its combination of two paradoxical linguistic/visual prompts.

Steel, masonite, and paint

93 1/4 x 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (236.86 x 69.85 x 69.85 cm)

Gift of Anne Gerber

2000.166

Not currently on view

Resources

Published ReferencesMacMillian, Laurel, "The Gershon Iskowitz Prize: 1986 - 2006", Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, pg. 102

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