The Spence Collection
How art can change your life.

Choosing Green Beans

Created 1972 Acquired 1974

Book of photos of choosing sequence

Artwork Story

Exhibited Laguna Art Museum 1998-9 "Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life"

Judith Spence

You can read about this in the lecture [see 'Stories' What I learned...]. On the simplest level, the focus of this game is on developing strategies for choosing, but in a larger sense the patterns of choosing also can reveal something about us, the choosers. So this metaphor for "Life" also connects to "The Footprints of Narcissus".

Reviews

"Exh:Laguna Art Museum, 1998-9, 'Life Lessons; ...'"

About the Artist

John Baldessari

Photos

Choose one, then replace the other two...
Choose one, then replace the other two...
etc.
Choose one & discard the rest; repeat...

Also By This Artist

Aligned Trumpeteering
Created 1988 Acquired 1989121

Artist with Swords and Brushes
Created 1984 Acquired 1986

Corrected Stonehenge
Created 1984 Acquired 1985

I will not make any more boring art
Created 1971 Acquired 1975

Ingres and Other Parables (book)
Created 1971 Acquired 1972

Ingres and Other Parables (book)
Created 1971 Acquired 19981012

Kiss/Panic: (2-color Poster) Margo Leavin Gallery
Created 1984 Acquired 19840000

Landscape
Created 1986 Acquired 1991

Olympic Posters
Created 1982 Acquired 1982

Painting For Kubler, 1966-8
Created 196600 Acquired 1973110

Pathetic Fallacy Series: Injured Yellow
Created 1975 Acquired 1977

Pathetic Fallacy Series: Stoic Peach
Created 1975 Acquired 1977

Poster (Middelburg) showing Minneapolis Billb/d
Created 1985 Acquired 1985

Poster 2 ships - from Margo Leavin
Acquired 19910000?

"Poster, Grenoble (color)"
Created 1987 Acquired 19870000

"Poster, 'Ni por Esas . Not Even So'"
Created 1989 Acquired 19890000

"Poster, Sonnabend Show"
Created 1986 Acquired 1986

"Poster, two men pointing"
Created 1985 Acquired 198511

Poster: 'A Refugee is a Human Being Stripped...'
Created 1986 or later Acquired 19860000?

Poster: Corrected Stonehenge
Created 1984 Acquired 1984

Poster: 'Flowers of Life for Central America'
Created 1986 approx Acquired 19860000?

Poster: Graz show
Created 1987 Acquired 19870000?

Poster: Hope (sgd)
Created 1981 Acquired 1981

Poster: Kansas City
Created 1984 Acquired 1984

Poster: Marg Leavin show
Created 1988 Acquired 1988

Poster: Museum Folk Vangesem
Created 1981 Acquired 19810000?

Poster; 'New Order'
Created 1987 Acquired 19870000?

'Raw Prints'
Created 1976 Acquired 1978

"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"
Created 1988 Acquired 19881122

"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"
Created 1988 Acquired 1989127

Two Men with Alphabets
Created 198400 Acquired 198680