‘Sidewalks’

Adam McEwen (b. 1965, London, England) walks with his head hung low, not in sorrow but in study, charting the humdrum topography of a city’s streets—its strata of gum once-chewed, crags of cigarettes once-puffed, and rivers of coffee or urine or maybe some unknowable juice. Sidewalks presents McEwen’s inkjet-on-sponge paintings, collected here in their entirety for the first time, alongside the “ambient” poetry of Tan Lin.