Pink-1965-6_BT-Smith_2013_XEROX_TheBoxLA

Frieze London Art Fair has awarded Mara McCarthy of the Box, their annual Stand Prize. The award of 10,000 pounds was for her presentation of Barbara T. Smith’s Xerox works from 1965–68. Smith, who was rejected by the now-legendary print house Gemini G.E.L., concluded that lithography was an outdated technology and decided to use the 20th-century print media of the photocopy machine. Smith thus leased a 914 Xerox and parked it in her living room for eight months, developing an extensive body of artist books and framed pieces, that where shown for the first time in 40 years in the exhibition ‘XEROX: Barbara T. Smith 1965–1966’.