John Baldessari has been a leading Conceptual Artist in America since the 1960s. His bold and unique style is a perfectly balanced melange of photographic, painterly, and assemblage traditions.

The underlying structure of Baldessari's work is the use of appropriated imagery, often from old Hollywood studio film stills or mass-market advertisement campaigns. These images, the fabric of popular culture, come from the very audience he speaks to, and Baldessari has continually found new ways to re-invent the way we look at and interact with them. True to his conceptual roots, John Baldessari remains apart from the creation of these original images, becoming involved with them only later as he removes them from their context, and reformulates them into strange arrangements, oddly new and hauntingly familiar all at the same time.

Brooke Alexander began working with John Baldessari in the 1980s, and continues to produce editioned prints with him today, most recently with Overlap Series: Double Motorcyclists and Landscape (Icelandic) from 2003.

Selected John Baldessari exhibitions at Brooke Alexander:

Photo-Based Prints, June - September 2010

Fresh Air, September - October 2008

Sets, June - August 2006

Artschwager / Baldessari / Judd / Rauschenberg
February - March 1996

John Baldessari: Working Materials, September - October 1993

John Baldessari: Prints 1986-1990, April - June 1990