top and bottom:
POKE FUN (Polex Knife)
POKE FUN (Demonstratus Gun)
2 Inkjet Prints
12' x 12", 2007
POKE FUN (Shish Kebab) & POKE FUN (Peace Poppies)
Black and white inkjet prints
24" X 36", 2007
POKE FUN (installation view of Polex Knife, Demonstratus Gun, and Shish Kebab )
NYPL Mulberry Street Branch installation views
Dimensions variable, 2007
“[...] The seed for [Poke Fun] was Cindy Sherman's Untitled #299 (1994), but instead of wearing the grimace and esotropic eye as a mask from which to look through and reflect upon, it is simplified and set aside as a pseudo-modernist sculpture, an escapist method of self-induced numbness and detachment, simply a condition of our times at a time of war.”
Text from the press release for Three Stories Deep, the exhibition at New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch, 10 Jersey Street, New York City, New York 10012. November 7th - December 19th, 2007.
left inset:
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #299, 1994.
The Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
