Restricted is co-published by White Columns and Beauty Books of Studio Route 29 in conjunction with Theo Baransky’s solo exhibition at White Columns on view until October, 25, 2025.

Theo Baransky Book Signing
White Columns’ Booth, E3
TODAY ~ SUN. SEPT. 14 ~ 2PM

NY Art Book Fair
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave,
Queens, NY 11101

Fair information:
https://printedmatterartbookfairs.org

 

“Baransky makes paintings that are ‘about’ movies, but what they mainly depict are the logos, signs and symbols that appear before a movie begins. That he sources many of his images from the VHS tapes that he collects is indicative of a particular inflection point in the span of our ever-broadening access to movies. More accessible than when movies could be seen only in theaters, but less so than the streaming services that were to come, VHS tapes are also much more explicitly objects, and as such they bear vestiges of the routes through which they were produced and disseminated. This once made them something to be sought out, bought, collected, traded, cherished. Baransky’s paintings restore them to this cherished status.”

– An excerpt from the foreword by Violet Saxon

Available for purchase at the gallery or on our website.