Marquee Projects presents And/or, a group exhibition exploring appropriation and/or recontextualized art, curated by DB Burkeman and featuring work from 1968-2024 by Richard Hamilton, Tom Sachs, Genieve Figgis, Erik Foss, KAWS, Eric Doeringer, Ryan McGinness, Mark Mulroney, Anthony Coleman, Kevin Stahl, Cumwizard69420, Walter Robinson, Luke Murphy, Rich Browd, and Titus McBeath.

From the curator:

When Oscar Wilde said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, I doubt he could have imagined Richard Prince in 1983 taking a photograph of Gary Gross’s 1975 photograph of Brooke Shields and calling it his own art. But he did, and the world has been arguing about this type of art ever since.

And/or is an exhibition of work centered around re-appropriation, ranging from pieces referencing everyday influences, to artist’s homages, to straight-up bootlegs. From Richard Hamilton’s newspaper clippings collage, Swingeing London ’67 (1968), to Titus McBeath’s 3D printed Doritos – riffing on Jasper Johns – titled Three Doritos, seen and not looked at, not examined (2024), this show highlights the unfading fascination of re-interpreting the extraordinary and the mundane.

DB Burkeman first became known within the world of rave music as DJ DB. He was associated with the sample-based genre of drum & bass and believes that his love of appropriation art is in some ways similar to his attraction to sampling in music. From the early 80s, seeing Richard Prince’s Marlboro cigarette ads and Jeff Koons’s readymades turned DB “into a sucker for this stuff”.

He has written and published books through Rizzoli that explore the deep-rooted connection between music and visual art, including Art sleeves: album covers by artists, an eclectic time-capsule of culturally significant artist-musician collaborations spanning genres and generations. And Stickers: from Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, vol.1 and Vol. 2. are an encyclopedic visual history of adhesive stickers. Now through his own art-adjacent press, Blurring books, he has created a sticker book titled The unbelievably fantastic artists’ sticker book, which includes authorized peel-out stickers from Joseph Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Jackson Pollock, and many others. The book is being carried by the great museums around the world, from MoMA to The Tate Modern.