Barbara Bloom
A Birthday Party for Everything
New York City, USA: I.C. Editions, 1999
12.1 x 49.1 x 29.6 cm.
Unlimited Edition
We had a copy of this work when I was at Art Metropole (I think it quickly sold to the AGO) and I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. It seemed like a cheap box of cheap dollar store party items and the gallerist's description does nothing to disabuse me of this notion:
“Barbara Bloom's A Birthday Party for Everything includes the essential ingredients for a picture-perfect party in a convenient carrying case.
No occasion would be complete without party hats and horns, plates, cups, napkins, and favors including puzzles, frisbees, wooden tops, yo-yos, kaleidoscopes, pinwheels, fans, bubbles, candy, and balloons. The artist makes this party her own and ours by festooning each surface with images ranging from the sub-atomic to the universal, from molecular structures to bodily systems to street maps to cityscapes to world views to the moon.
A Birthday Party for Everything is quite simply a celebration of life.”
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