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Signifier Signs is closed for business.

• Signifier Signs opened in 2011 and closed in 2021.
• Everything & Nothing, a retrospective exhibition of neon signs, was on view in the studio where the work was made from June 14th to June 20th, 2021.
• Comprehensive documentation of this exhibition will be posted here some day; until then, a few pics are available below.

Everything & Nothing — a ten year retrospective exhibition

I had a choice between doubling down on neon and getting out, and I’ve chosen to get out. This show is a retrospective of the ten years I’ve spent making commercial neon signs and fine art.

I used to enjoy the contradiction between criticizing capitalism and making neon signs. It is a delicious irony and neon is a wonderful material. I love the mundane power of making lightbulbs by hand and the sucker-punch of the anti-signs. We live in an apocalyptic world that is getting hotter and more unstable every year, and it is time to do something more meaningful.

George Vidas, June 2021