Lydia Rosenberg: Lamp Store, Grand Reopening
Society•Jun 07, 2025 — Aug 02, 2025
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SOCIETY has invited Pittsburgh-based artist Lydia Rosenberg to mount the first exhibition in its space above Mother Foucault’s Bookshop at 711 SE Grand Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Rosenberg’s Lamp Store, Grand Reopening will open on June 7, 2025 with a reception from 5-7pm. The exhibition will continue through July 19.
Lamp Store, Grand Reopening is a lamp store as sculpture: loose, assisted readymade assemblages—lamps of exceptional formal invention and wit—as well as materials of the apparatus of the store itself. Lamp Store, Grand Reopening is an exhibition that is also a store that sells lamps.
Rosenberg’s installation nods to Claes Oldenberg’s The Store (1961) and Sturtevant’s The Store of Claes Oldenburg (1967) ;). Recall, if you will, that poet Mina Loy made a living for a time selling painted lampshades out of a Parisian lamp shop backed by the venerable Peggy Guggenheim. See also: every other day job, gig, and hack that artists do to get by.
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Lydia Rosenberg: Lamp Store, Grand Reopening
Society•Jun 07, 2025 — Aug 02, 2025
Press Release
SOCIETY has invited Pittsburgh-based artist Lydia Rosenberg to mount the first exhibition in its space above Mother Foucault’s Bookshop at 711 SE Grand Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Rosenberg’s Lamp Store, Grand Reopening will open on June 7, 2025 with a reception from 5-7pm. The exhibition will continue through July 19.
Lamp Store, Grand Reopening is a lamp store as sculpture: loose, assisted readymade assemblages—lamps of exceptional formal invention and wit—as well as materials of the apparatus of the store itself. Lamp Store, Grand Reopening is an exhibition that is also a store that sells lamps.
Rosenberg’s installation nods to Claes Oldenberg’s The Store (1961) and Sturtevant’s The Store of Claes Oldenburg (1967) ;). Recall, if you will, that poet Mina Loy made a living for a time selling painted lampshades out of a Parisian lamp shop backed by the venerable Peggy Guggenheim. See also: every other day job, gig, and hack that artists do to get by.
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