| Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof |
| Statement |
| Why We Give Away Art |
| By giving away art, we are bypassing the gallery art consumer and going directly to the ordinary Joe on the street. |
| And we are subverting many of the assumptions about contemporary art-making, including its forbidding seriousness, its exclusivity and its permanence. |
| Materials |
| Now we work mostly in paper, using computer-generated images, but in the past we have worked with concrete, clothesline, metal, wood and fabric. |
| Our Product |
| We are not concerned with products to be cherished for eternity. Memory is our chief product, humor our by-product. |
| We give away small art objects on the street, bringing art out of the galleries into public spaces and putting it into the hands of ordinary people. |
| We also tell funny stories about the art giveaways, and the stories are more than documentation; they are part of the art. We have used reports, installations, our Web page and video to tell the stories. |
| Miscellany |
| We are both founding members of Philadelphia Sculptors. Roberta writes art reviews for several publications, including the Philadelphia Weekly, Artnet.com and Art on Paper magazine. Libby is the former editor of the University of Pennsylvania's faculty/staff newspaper, the Penn Current. |
Fallon (center) and Rosof (left) hand out art. The Zero .1% for Art Commission About our collaboration Where to see our work Home |
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Fallon (center) and Rosof (left) hand out art. The Zero .1% for Art Commission About our collaboration Where to see our work "OK Artists" Home |
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Fallon (center) and Rosof (left) hand out art. |
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