Tumblering Quotes

Richard Prince, "Protest Painting,"

The piece depicts a muted, textured monochromatic surface overlaying the structural shape of a cross. Stenciled across the top section are the truncated words "IM A MA", directly referencing the historical civil rights slogan and Glenn Ligon's iconic artwork, Untitled (I Am a Man).

Acrylic and graphite on canvas,

William Pope.L. , "Next to Last Silk Screen," 2018,

Silkscreen in lightbox,

25 x 19 ³/₈in. (63.6 x 49.3cm.)

Jona Krasniqi, Where Do Thoughts Go, 2025,

Yayoi Kusama, Untitled, 2024,

Acrylic and marker pen on paper,

Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm McLaren:

'I Groaned with Pain' T-Shirt,

The quote actually originates from the 1954 erotic novel Helen and Desire by Alexander Trocchi. It became famous in the 1970s when Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren featured it on provocative t-shirts sold at their legendary King's Road boutique, SEX.

The Damned/Brian James:

Original and Unique Handwritten Lyrics for New Rose,

black ink on paper, lyrics written on both sides, names and phone numbers to the reverse, 5 1/2in x 7in (14cm x 18cm)

The Estate of Brian James. Famously New Rose was the first single to be released by a British punk band. The phone numbers on the reverse refer to Ron Watts who was a punk promoter who organised gigs at the 100 Club.

Pat Steir (1938–2026),

"Intro 1," 1976 (part of the Burial Mound Series).

This work is a significant early example of her conceptual approach to printmaking, produced during a period when she was deconstructing traditional artistic symbols like the rose and exploring the relationship between marks and meaning.

During the mid-1970s, Steir was deeply involved in the New York conceptual art scene. In the same year she created Introduction 1, she also helped launch Printed Matter, the iconic artist bookstore and publisher.

Her work from this era often utilized a grid or cross to negate imagery, a technique intended to "destroy images as symbols" and focus the viewer on the physical reality of the paint or ink mark itself. This conceptual foundation eventually led to her famous "Waterfall" series in the late 1980s, where she allowed gravity and the materiality of the medium to dictate the final composition.

Printed by Timothy F. Berry at Landfall Press,

Sheet: approx. 26.5 × 26.5 cm (Plate: approx. 25.0 × 25.0 cm).

Rosa Barba, "Isolation of Information," 2015,

Linocut ink on unstretched canvas,

Rabindranath Tagore !

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali polymath. He reshaped Bengali literature and music. In 1913, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.