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John Baldessari's yearbook?

Found this on my desktop and have no recollection of where it originally came from.  But I like it.   

Very John Baldessari meets angsty teenager:

The Late Dennis Oppenheim

"Star Field" by Dennis Oppenheim

I was introduced to the work of artist Dennis Oppenheim, like so many others, while working for Partners & Spade Gallery in New York.  From 1967 through 2010, the American-born Oppenheim worked as a conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. 


My favorite period of his lengthy career were the early years.  The late 60s and early 70s during which he created temporary outdoor sculptures, called "earthworks."  In his obituary this past January, New York Times described the artist and his process as "like an environmentally inclined Marcel Duchamp, using engineers’ stakes and photographs, he simply designated parts of the urban landscape as artworks."


What resulted are beautiful, eery images, frozen in the form of 42-by-32-inch lithographs, that look like stills from a David Lynch film or images dug up from a file-cabinet in the Extraterrestrial Operations division of the CIA. 


I hope to have at least one of these hanging on a wall in my house some day.  For now, I'll make do with the 5x8 print-out of "Cobalt Vectors" tacked to the wall in my office.