DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Edition – November, 2017
print on tracing paper, 5 parts, incl. envelope
signed, dated, numbered
edition 10, here 5/10
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Each month David Horvitz makes 10 editioned pieces, each of which costs 1/10th of his studio rent. Subscriber receive the edition through mail.

‘In 2010, I was living in Brooklyn. I had just received my MFA from Bard College and I was trying to figure out a studio situation. I don’t necessarily need a studio to make my work, but I’ve always felt it is important to have a designated place outside my home to go to. A silent place where I could sit and think. A place to drink green tea and daydream, to develop thoughts and leave those thoughts there for the next day.

Since I didn’t have a full time job, I couldn’t see myself paying rent for a New York studio over a long period of time. And so I came up with an idea. I would make an edition-of-ten artwork each month. Maybe it was a photograph turned into a postcard, or some photocopies, or a text-work, or a LaserJet print, a watercolor of a flower I stole while walking down the street, or an envelope of sand from a California beach.’ David Horvitz, April 2016