"The Story Underneath" by John Baldessari is now on view in our New York space, assembling over seventy-five collages, photographs, film stills and drawings dating from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. ⁠ ⁠ In his impressive and influential oeuvre spanning almost six decades, Baldessari consistently exposed the complex and ambiguous narrative potential of images. Drawing from a carefully collected pool of visual signs, he explored how meaning is not necessarily an inherent quality of an image, but is created, deconstructed or obscured when taken out of context, altered or combined with other images or words. ⁠ ⁠ Curated by Nana Bahlmann.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to explore the exhibition online.⁠ ⁠ #JohnBaldessari #SpruethMagers #NewYork⁠ Photo: Genevieve Hanson⁠ ⁠