The exhibition "The Story Underneath" by John Baldessari is on view in New York from tomorrow onwards, assembling over seventy-five collages, photographs, film stills and drawings dating from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. It is the first exhibition in our new New York space. ⁠ ⁠ 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. ⁠ ⁠ #JohnBaldessari #SpruethMagers #NewYork⁠ ⁠ Image: ⁠ John Baldessari⁠ Hope (Blue) Supported by a Bed of Oranges (Life): Amid a⁠ Context of Allusions (Maquette), 1991 (detail)⁠ Film still photograph, acetate, sticker and wax pencil⁠ 27.9x35.6 cm⁠ 11x14 inches⁠ © John Baldessari 1991. Courtesy Estate of John Baldessari⁠ © 2022⁠ Photo: Robert Wedemeyer