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For Lockhart Studio and Neugerriemschneider

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Type Editorial

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Format 11.5 × 20.5 cm

Publication designed for Sharon Lockhart’s solo show at Neugerriemschneider in Berlin, featuring Sharon’s painting series, History Paintings I-VII, in 2022. The series, drawing from The New York Times, distills key global events from April 2020 to July 2021 into stark, hand-painted words. Each painting features 15 words linked to specific news articles covering topics like the COVID-19 pandemic and political turmoil.

 This publication supplements the series, documents its references, and extends its exploration of language, history, and our relationship with media. Featuring an essay by Lane Relyea that examines Lockhart's method of transforming time-bound events into abstract, permanent states through language, the publication echoes the minimal approach and monochrome aesthetic of the series through its use of fragmented newspaper clippings and austere layout.

The only chromatic interruption appears in the red page numbers, which function as a reference system linking each spread to the final section of citations. There, readers can trace the source of any fragment by finding its corresponding red number, which identifies when and where each piece appeared in The New York Times—a navigation tool that makes visible Lockhart's process of extracting historical events from their journalistic origins.