via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/678107326284494/ via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476484782 Cirrus is pleased to convene with other publishers of fine art editions in Los Angeles, and with Artillery magazine, for a round table discussion on their collective history of work with John Baldessari, moderated by Ezrha Jean Black, on Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30 pm, via Facebook or Zoom The exhibition of Baldessari’s work currently at Cirrus, what i saw: john baldessari prints, 1976–2015 includes thirty-two prints, seventeen of which were published by Cirrus in collaboration with the artist. Baldessari’s signature use of montage and banal images in discordant visual juxtapositions has influenced generations of artists in Los Angeles and beyond, but perhaps he is best loved for his use of sometimes obfuscating allegory and disjointed narrative, and for his generous wit and biting insight. The Cirrus exhibition takes its title from the print I Saw It (1997), produced in collaboration with the artist and nonprofit Side Street Projects. A classic Baldessarian reference in the print’s title to Side Street’s mobile woodworking bus model for social engagement, combines playful landguage with a wink at the reception of UFOs in popular culture. The show includes The Fallen Easel (1988), an ambitious and unpredictable, multi-part composition of individually-framed and mounted images that takes on a noir cast as the picture physically breaks apart, suggesting a rapid, chaotic cutting of film stills. From his first use of lithograph, Raw Prints, produced with Cirrus in 1976, to the most recent print series in the show, produced in 2015, Engravings with Sounds, Baldessari photographs shoppers at a mall in Santa Monica to activate visual senses or appropriates engravings to provoke auditory responses. These works bookend Baldessari’s long relationship with Cirrus.