Shopping Bags and Mall People
2009, limited edition stickers on 7 For All Mankind shopping bags, wall stickers

As part of a collaboration between 7 For All Mankind and the New Art Dealers Association (NADA), Ben Roosevelt has created a new set of images based on photos in Lenox Square Mall.  In a limited edition of modified 7 For All Mankind bags, the artist has turned unnoticed parts of the mall into iconic stencil-like images.  Further images of fellow mall-goers, captured in various states of wandering, looking, and consuming, are hidden throughout the store for customers to discover as they browse.  As with much of Roosevelt’s practice, his work here enacts a revealing reversal by making a bold iconography out of the mundane and interstitial.

– Chris Fite-Wassilak, curator