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If you’re familiar with the work of Kenneth Price (1935 – 2012), you already know that he had a singular talent for transforming clay into something far stranger — and far more evocative — than traditional ceramics ever aspired to be. His 1963 sculpture S. L. Green captures Price at a pivotal moment in his early career, when he was beginning to push the medium into new, almost rebellious territory. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Kenneth Price, S.L. Green
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If you think television has always been a little too obsessed with beauty ideals, you’re not wrong — and artist Luis Jiménez saw it coming from a mile away. His sculpture Blond TV Image (1967) captures that uneasy relationship between media, technology, and the female form with biting humor and Pop-era flair. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Blond TV Image By Luis Jiménez
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Made from redwood and pine found in the artists Northern California backyard, Jeremy Anderson’s Riverrun (1965 ) was inspired by his fascination with intestinal forms, medical school models, and the elongated figures in old comic books like Plastic Man (1941 – 1956) and Powerhouse Pepper (1942 – 1948).
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In Globe of the United States (1990), artist and activist David Wojnarowicz transforms a familiar object into a charged symbol of political and cultural critique. This mixed-media sculpture — a lightbulb-illuminated globe, its surface painted black — abandons the standard cartographic view of the world. Instead, multiple outlines of the United States float across a void of darkness, isolated from any surrounding continents.
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Robert Watts’ Case of Eggs (with Rainbow Wax Eggs) (1964) is a sly and playful gem from the Fluxus movement — an artwork that feels as visually satisfying as it is conceptually rich. Set in a clear acrylic case, a tidy arrangement of wax eggs gleams in a spectrum of soft, sherbet-colored hues. Like much of the artist’s output, this piece teases the line between the banal and the extraordinary.
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