12 July – 1 September 2024

opening reception: 12 July from 6:00-9:00 PM

Marginal Utility / 2C books are proud to present Shopper’s Special: Circular Ad Collages, an exhibition of multimedia works on paper by Philadelphia-based artist Misha Wyllie.

The exhibited works in Shopper’s Special: Circular Ad Collages are composed of circular advertisements and abstract grid paintings. To make these, Wyllie cuts out the products and text from the advertisements, leaving the framework and its decorative elements. She then glues the cut-up ad on top of a painting of repeated drips, strokes or spills in ink and/or acrylic, kinds of mark-making suggest systematic (hand) movements more typical of modes of mass production. Through this combination of found objects and painting, these works explore the relationship of art and the circular advertisement as technologies that circulate information and as objects that elicit desire and imaginative thinking.