Kay Rosen | HI

Kay Rosen

HI

Toronto, Canada: Paul + Wendy Projects, 2024

Adjustable one size fits all cap

Edition of 50

About twenty years ago Kay Rosen sent me a parcel that included a signed copy of the work HI as a rectangular button. A few years after that Micah Lexier (seen above with Jonathan Monk) included the work in an exhibition he curated at the gallery that represents me, MKG127 (see below). After the show ended the work remained as the exterior awning for a year or so, and kickstarted Michael Klein’s program of commissioning an artist to design the gallery signage (light boxes by Roula Partheniou,  Ken Lum, Abbas Akhavan, Deanna Bowen and many others followed). 

Now our good friends Paul Van Kooy and Wendy Gomoll have published the work as a one -size-fits-all baseball cap. 

HI has existed as a gallery wall-work, a billboard and public mural, but I think it works best as a wearable item, where it can function as a greeting. 

The hat is the second baseball cap published by Paul + Wendy Projects, their second work by Rosen and their 78th project overall. 

Produced in an edition of fifty, HI can be purchased for fifty dollars, here.