rolls and tubes collective

At the start of our shelter-in-place, SIP, in March 2020, there was an immediate supply and demand issue of toilet tissue. The Rolls and Tubes Collective examines the history of photography using their personal photography libraries and beyond, incorporating toilet paper in some way or another in the creation of their works. Visit the Rolls and Tubes website here. All work, with referenced photographs, can be seen on Instagram @rolls_and_tubes.

Rolls & Tubes includes artists Christy McDonald, Colleen Mullins, Jenny Sampson and Nicole White.

Papeeja Ferolls Un-done, a Deputy Directress of Corona, Veils Face and Hands in the Presence of Me, 2020 after Margaret Bourke-White’s Khadeeja Feroze Ud-din, a Deputy Directress of Education,

Veils Face and Hands in the Presence of Men, 1947

Toilet Paper Roll, 2020 / after Tina Modotti, Oil Tank, 1927

Self-Portrait, 2020 / after Alma Lavenson, Self-Portrait, 1932

Toiletpaper Collection, 2020 / after Andreas Gursky’s Turner Collection, 1995

Toilet Paper Camellia Not in Water 2020 / after Consuelo Kanaga’s Camellia in Water, 1927-1928

Ronald Tissue, flaxkeeper, Berkeley, California, 3/31/20 / after Richard Avedon’s Ronald Fischer, beekeeper Davis, California, 5/9/81, 1981

Loser for Rolls and Tubes by Jenny Sampson, Drawing by Jenny Sampson, 2020 / after Barbara Kruger’s for New York Magazine,

Photograph by Mark Peterson, 2016

Toilet Paper, 2020 / after Edward Curtis, Washo Baskets, 1924

Wadded decumbens against Toilet Tissue, Berkeley, 2020 / after Harry Callahan, Weed against Sky, Detroit, 1948

TP Tubes, Berkeley, California, 2020 / after Gordon Parks’s Sewer Pipes, Harlem, New York, 1946

Toilette Paper Rolls, 2020 / after Keith Carter’s Boule Balls, 1999

USA. Berkeley. 2020 / after Elliot Erwitt, USA. New York City. 2000

Teaubular Under Plastic (1), 2020 / Peter Hujar, Beauregard Under Plastic (1), 1983

untitled / after Gita Lenz, untitled

T.P. Lincoln, 2020 / after Anthony Berger, Abraham Lincoln, 1864

Rolls in Jenny Sampson’s Basket, 2020 / after Imogen Cunningham, Eggs in Ruth Asawa’s Basket, 1956

Berkeley Dining Room Table Drive-In, 2020 / after Hiroshi Sugimoto, Union City Drive-In, 1993

The Road West, TP 54 in Northern California, 2020 / after Dorothea Lange, The Road West, US 54, in Southern New Mexico, 1938

[Hand Feeling Toilet Paper To TP Elephant Trunk, Street], 2020 / after Garry Winogrand, [Hand Feeding Elephant Trunk, Zoo], 1963

A Dream of More Toilet Paper #TP-71-1, 2020 / after Ken Rosenthal’s A Dream Half Remembered FB-41-1, 2005

oilet Paper Portrait Tubeland, 2020 / after J. Grant Brittain, Tony Hawk Portrait Sanoland, 1983