GEDI SIBONY & JONATHAN VANDYKE



Gedi Sibony and Jonathan VanDyke have created the project "Endless Poster" in which they will post found & fabricated posters in various public & private spaces in New York City. Of the two primary posters in the project, one notes "please ask for help" while another is an advertisement for a lost cat named Woosie.

Sibony found the "please ask for help" poster, a hastily hand-written sign, in a drug store. Copying and placing it en masse, the specific and local is made general, an open-ended request without a palpable reply. VanDyke found a lost cat poster in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and re-made it for this project. The hand-made poster suggests that one heart's desire has been hopelessly lost within the bigness of New York.




HOW TO LOCATE

Look for posters everywhere around the city.

Keep an eye out for STRIKE posters nearby.




ABOUT THE ARTISTS


GEDI SIBONY

I was born in New York City in 1973, received a BA from Brown University, an MFA from Columbia University, participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the PS1 National Studio Program, and show my work at various venues in the United States and Europe. Currently I'm working on a project for Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City.



JONATHAN VANDYKE

Jonathan VanDyke (born Pennsylvania, 1973), artist, lives in New York. Previously he served as Executive Director & curator at the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Among the exhibits he has curated are "I'm Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century" (with Sean Mellyn, 1999), "Post Pop" (2000) and "Pop Mechanics" (2001). In the spring of 2001 he organized "Imaging Judaism" in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a city-wide project and exhibition that initiated community dialogue following an act of anti-Semitism. During the summer of 2001 he co-curated the project "Let's Get to Work" with Gavin Wade (London), in which artists submitted plans towards the building of an ideal city.