The Identical Lunch with Shigeko Kubota
Alison Knowles
American, 1933 – 2025
1968-69, printed c. 1969
A grainy screenprint on canvas that reproduces a halftone portrait of Shigeko Kubota, made by Alison Knowles to extend her Fluxus event 'The Identical Lunch' into a reproducible object that treats an everyday shared meal as art.
From a distance it reads as a soft, photocopy-like image of a smiling face and gesturing hands built from tiny dots, set against broad white margins with a handwritten title beneath.
Rooted in Fluxus, the work collapses performance, documentation, and serial reproduction to make mundane, private actions—like eating the same lunch—into collective, shareable artworks.
Medium
Screenprint on canvas
Dimensions
composition: 13 5/8 x 17 5/16" (34.6 x 44 cm); sheet: 20 15/16 x 26" (53.2 x 66 cm)
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Credit
The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift
Accession
3793.2008
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