Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis
The Courier’s Dilemma
San Francisco, USA: The Quarterly Report, 2025
12.6" x 9.7 x 4.4"
Edition size unknown
When we visited Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis’ impressive Pittsburgh studio last year there were two mailboxes hanging on the wall beside the stairs leading up to the loft, one for interesting mail, the other for boring (see below). I suspect it began as an organizing principle and grew into an artwork.
I might’ve pitched the idea of producing them as a Nothing Else Press edition if we hadn’t just produced this work with them the previous year.
The piece has just been announced as the second object project from The Quarterly Report (a spin off of The Thing Quarterly). The edition consists of two metal mail boxes with hand painted text, along with mounting hardware and key.
The work evokes two favourites: David Shrigley’s NO JUNK MAIL, published by our mutual friends Paul + Wendy Projects, and Ben Vautier’s The Postman’s Choice postcard (a card with address lines on both sides).
The Courier’s Dilemma is available from the publisher, here, for $275.00 US.
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