Among the possible masterpieces being prepared for sale at a pop-up gallery on the Lower East Side were a tar bucket, an electrified toilet seat, a false beard made of real golden hair, and a pouch of 19th-century cheese.
A few days before a group of nine antique dealers convened at a pop-up gallery on the Lower East Side for the first-ever Found Object Show, the event’s organizer, Adam Irish, was working out a central question: What is a found object? Consider, for example, a quintessential found object recovered by his friend and co-exhibitor Joshua Lowenfels: a rusty bike enveloped by a tree trunk.
Irish and his fellow-dealers find their objects in high and low places—auctions, flea markets, hoarders’ barns. Recently, Irish met up with Lowenfels to hunt for some more on a stretch of beach in Brooklyn at the edge of a landfill. Over time, waves had eroded the cliffs, covering the shore with a mantle of mid-century trash. Irish, who owns an antique shop in Providence, Rhode Island, wore a shawl-neck cardigan and round glasses, and had a professorial air.
Farther down the beach, the pair made another discovery: more pantyhose Medusas. The beach was full of them. “It’s the property of the material and how it repeats itself,” Lowenfels said. “Like how some things get tangled in the dryer and other things don’t.”Lowenfels turned to an area of bottles whose necks faced out to sea. “The bottles are facing Mecca,” he said.
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