“Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018”

Found-object sculptures, photo collages and mass-media–inspired posters sound like typically humorless pieces of conceptual art. But there’s a wry wit to Allen Ruppersberg’s works, and a sincere reverence of the cultural sources he mines, be it a Ruppersberg-less series of portraits with index cards that ask "Where’s Al?” to oversized comic book cutouts of Scrooge McDuck. Ruppersberg devours books, typically teasing apart their aesthetic nature: The entirety of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is scribbled onto over a dozen huge canvases while Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has been phonetically written across a wall-filling series of flourscent Colby Poster prints.