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Sun, Mar 2, 2025 2:00pm–3:00pm

Exhibition Tour: Post No Bills with UMMA Curator Ashley Miller

This mixed media painting has a graffiti aesthetic. There are a series of portraits, one large in spray paint in the center of the work and a number of smaller ones in collaged newspaper. Throughout the composition are stenciled phrases in black and red paint as well as inscribed phrases in pen and various colored paints. There are also a number collaged pieces of newspaper. The work is signed and dated (l.r.) "B Dogancay / 2009" in yellow paint.
Burhan Doğançay, Give Peace a Chance, 2009, collage and mixed media on canvas. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Angela Doğançay, 2015/2.151
Sun, Mar 2, 2025
2:00pm–3:00pm
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery

Join UMMA Curator Ashley Miller in a tour of “Post No Bills.” This exhibition highlights the works of Turkish diplomat Burhan Doğançay (1929–2013) and his fascination with the messy cacophony of urban bulletin boards—produced by chance and absorbing the chaos of everyday life. Urban walls struck him as beautiful abstract paintings composed by humans, nature, and time. He abandoned his consular post and dedicated the rest of his life to creating artworks inspired by public walls around the world. Over fifty years he traveled to more than one hundred cities, documenting the ever-changing advertisements, graffiti, and discourses recorded on thousands of walls. They became the inspiration for his own mixed media works that often incorporate raw materials from the street.

Free and open to the public. Registration required.

Related Exhibition
Art object that looks like a bright blue wall with a black line of paint and torn stickers and wheat paste along with hand done graffiti style icons and letters.
Post No Bills
March 1 — July 13, 2025
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery

SUPPORT

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Department of History of Art and the U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.