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James Lee Byars: Golddust Is My Ex-Libris, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY

posted August 30, 2009

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James Lee Byars, Untitled (IS IS), no date
Ink on gold paper, diameter 14 inches

July 6 – September 4, 2009

For summer, Michael Werner Gallery presents GOLDDUST IS MY EX-LIBRIS. This exhibition of works by James Lee Byars includes a major gilded work, as well as works on paper, in which gold is the medium for an aesthetic experience rooted in an ideal of luminous, inaccessible perfection.

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