Paul Ramirez Jonas Hello Limited Edition Print

Mixed MediaInkjet print with silkscreenMeasures: 24.00 x 18.00 in61.0 x 45.7 cmEdition of 108Signed and numbered by the artist.This work is part of the Vera List Anniversary Print Portfolio, created in recognition of the exceptional legacy of philanthropist Vera List. It was the generosity of Vera and her husband Albert that enabled the founding of the Vera List Art Project at Lincoln Center in 1962, MIT's List Arts Center in 1982, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in 1992, among others. These institutions joined forces with Artspace and six internationally renowned artists to produce this print portfolio.In Paul Ramirez Jonas's Untitled print, a blank name tag is placed on an anonymous man's grey shirt, both greeting the audience and encouraging it to supply the subject's identity and backstory. Typical of the artist's oeuvre, this work is simultaneously engaging, participatory, and clever.Guided by an interest in participatory art, Paul Ramirez Jonas creates works that explore the notion of the unspoken contract between audience and artwork. The public nature of many of his commissions, coupled with their often-engaging premises, encourages viewers to complete and to validate the works, drawing the artist and his audience into an equal dialogue. For his Key to the City project (2010), the artist reproduced thousands of keys, which would unlock two dozen specific locations across New York City, that were ceremoniously presented to interested parties in Times Square. His works have been exhibited at the Sao Paolo Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, and the Venice Biennale, as well as at numerous institutions, including the New Museum, MoMA PS1, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.