How about the “animated furniture”
by Jake Cress? I especially like his chair called “Oops”: http://www.jakecress.com/picture_gallery.htm
Jordana S. Weiss,
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Museum of Fine
Arts 255 Beach Drive NE St. Petersburg, FL 33701
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896-2667 fax (727) 894-4638 www.fine-arts.org
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SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Minsky
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Hi Moira,
Every bookbinder does this. For example, The Crisis of Democracy:
or Larry Sullivan's The Prison Reform Movement:
Or a decorated car:
It can get extreme:
Many more examples are at http://minsky.com
--
Richard
At 08:18 AM 3/22/2010, you wrote:
Greetings colleagues:
A student is looking for artists who take ordinary objects and embellish them
so that their purpose, while evident, is masked somewhat by the surface
decoration.
I have in my mind a table and a mirror that have plastic toys, Cracker Jack
items, etc. attached to them. These items a kind of like coral reefs of
popular culture. There was also an artist who decorated cars - with
plastic items, even grass.
Unfortunately my memory bank is not retrieving information today and I can't
think of their names or the names of other artists who do similar work.
Can anyone give me a hand here with any names of artists who do these types of
objects?
Much appreciated in advance!
Moira
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