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		Robert Rauschenberg Shiners · Gluts · Urban Bourbons Exhibition Promotion
	Advertising & Publication Design	Rauschenberg at Knoedler throughout the late eighties to the mid-nineties reveals a remarkably fertile period of the great artist's achievement.

Between 1984 and 1991, the artist was actively engaged in his most elaborate project Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI). This period also saw the introduction of his collaborations with Saff Tech Arts at Knoedler & Company, his Shiners, Gluts + Urban Bourbons as well as the Shales series. ROCI gave rise to an extraordinary and diverse body of work that, in turn, launched the metal painting and sculpture series within which over the next decade he explored the use of metal as a support for paint, tarnishes, enamel, and screenprinted images. The metal paintings have a wide range of effects, from the extreme reflectiveness of Shiners, which are practically like mirrors, to Gluts, which are made from scrap-metal objects, such as gas station signs and automobile parts, to the brilliantly colored enamels of Urban Bourbons. We introduced the Shiners · Gluts · Urban Bourbons 1988 exhibition campaign with gorgeous reproductions of the silkscreened images on the shiny surfaces of stainless steel, copper and aluminum in Art in America and Art Forum as well as in a full-color catalogue. His iconic signature instantly became the "logotype" for all his promotional campaigns. The series garnered a lot of press when it was shown at Knoedler & Company.