
“Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018”
For five decades, Allen Ruppersberg has balanced grand gesturessay, opening a hotel or café under his own name, or transcribing Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray by handwith humble vernacular materials (Colby Poster Printing Company’s rainbow-gradient placards, pop LPs, laminated plastic, etc.) and self- effacing modesty (“Al”). Like his peers who defined West Coast Conceptualism (John Baldessari, Douglas Huebler, and Alexis Smith among them), Ruppersberg has embraced language as the province of visual art, often with humorous