“White Lies Matter” Diptych [Screen prints]

$300.00 - $600.00

  • Image of “White Lies Matter” Diptych [Screen prints]
  • Image of “White Lies Matter” Diptych [Screen prints]
  • Image of “White Lies Matter” Diptych [Screen prints]
  • Image of “White Lies Matter” Diptych [Screen prints]

“#whiteliesmatter” ties President Trump’s propensity to lie about even trivial matters—little white lies—to his race-baiting rhetoric; his “White” lies. Donald Trump’s false equivalency between gun-toting neo-Nazis and anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville—“very fine people on both sides”—is but one example of a “White” lie. Other racist lies include Trump’s insistence that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, or that he is a secret Muslim.

Our companion poster features the title “White Lies Matter” set in Swear Smoke, a typeface designed by our friend James Edmondson of OH no Type Company in Oakland, California. Like his “White” lies, @realdonaldtrump is a fake—a delusory, vaporous exhalation of hate and fear.

These two posters form a diptych, and are meant to be experienced as a pair. We successfully Kickstarted this work in the summer of 2020 with the help of 75 funders.

COLLECTIONS

• Merrill C. Berman Collection, Rye, New York
• Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Los Angeles
• Deutsche Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang, Essen
• Letterform Archive, San Francisco
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
• Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
• Poster Museum at Wilanów, Warsaw
• Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London

EXHIBITIONS

• “Southern Miss National Poster Show” (2023)
The University of Southern Mississippi, Gallery of Art and Design,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• “2nd Cyprus Poster Triennial” (2022)
State Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus

• “New! Newer! Newly!” (2022)
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), Germany

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EDITION: 50 signed and numbered per design; an unknown number unsigned; 2 artists’ proofs per design

DIMENSIONS: 24 x 36 inches
MEDIA: “#whiteliesmatter” is screen printed in black on Classic Crest Smooth Solar White, 130#; “White Lies Matter” is screen printed in white on Classic Crest Smooth Epic Black Cover, #130.

PRINTING: Monolith Press / Alameda
ILLUSTRATION: © 2020 Mark Fox / Design is Play / San Francisco
DESIGN: © 2020 Mark Fox and Angie Wang / Design is Play / San Francisco

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Domestic shipping (USA only) is free via USPS or UPS Ground. Please allow 2–3 weeks for delivery. For international shipping, please inquire.

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