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Tastes Like Chicken, 2013.
Hand Colored, enlarged collage pasted on wall.
Brooklyn, NY
The impetus for this piece was an experience I had upon moving back to New York from San Francisco. I was staying with a friend in an SRO on 23rd st, and one day when we were walking around the roofs, we noticed all of these pigeons strung up on a line, as if they were being preserved. It happened to be in close proximity to a Chinese restaurant nearby.
I also have been rather disturbed over the years at the sight of birds eating meat from the garbage. Sometimes that food is fowl.
One of my assistants from last summer had raised a pigeon while growing up. I thought they would enjoy helping with an image about something they had a direct association with. Of course my imagery went for a darkly humorous note, and I began to wonder how I might be able to layer on some art historical notes. I have always been a fan of Goya, and as I was looking through some of his prints. I came across one where he directly referenced an image of Peter Paul Rubens - Saturn Devouring His Son. I used this same image to base my image upon.
A potential eating of ones own.
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Dismantled statue of Stalin in Budapest, Hungary ca. 1990.
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Art Institute of Chicago
24November2012
“Alex Katz’s design—a procession of twenty-four women’s faces—adds a flowing, light, and spacious sense to the usually congested environment of 42nd Street and Broadway.” Nine Women, Sep 1, 1977 – Dec 31, 1982 (publicartfund)
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Art Institute of Chicago - North Garden | Chicago, IL | Laurie Olin
Across the way from Dan Kiley’s South Garden lies the work of another famous landscape architect: Laurie Olin’s North Garden. Though Olin pays homage to Kiley’s original design by incorporating orange gravel, vinca, and canopy trees, these two gardens are very structurally different from one another.
As an open-air sculpture garden, one of the most striking differences is the amount of colorful and brightness in Olin’s design. Deliberately asymmetrical, the North Garden represents the newer, more modern era. The most eye-catching sculpture in the garden is Alexander Calder’s bright red Flying Dragon.
More: Landscape Voice - Art Institute of Chicago - North Garden
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River wreck ’12 (bow), at the Cacapon River in West Virginia, a 60-ft intervention by R.L. Croft. Find more images of his outdoor work here. (Photo courtesy of the artist.) (C-MONSTER.net)
Rodin’s Burghers of Calais, traveling down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, from the Rodin Museum to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where they will cleaned. To be re-installed at a later date…
