Fred Fehlau
United States
b. 1958

No It Can, 1992
Conceptual plastic palindrome
with pencil and 8 stencils in pouch
4 x 4 in.
Sweeney Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Gift of the Norton family
92.3.1

Fred Fehlau is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. His work is minimal in form and conceptual in content; it addresses issues of language, location and identity. As in No It Can, his work often shifts the viewer's point of reference through the doubling and mirroring of images and text. The piece No It Can contains the materials and instructions to create a wall drawing of the palindromic phrase "NOITCANASSESSANACTION." A word, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward and forward is called a palindrome.

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