Walking down a forest road on Sunday afternoon, I saw a dead skunk plowed flat. (Song here.) Wherever you look in art right now, there are a lot of squashed hopes and dreams brought back to robust life through direct confrontation. A small survey follows.
Dan Webb – Real Disguise, detail
Karen Ganz (at Howard House till Sept. 26)
Nayland Blake– The Big One
Jon Haddock– The Activist
Sean Duffy
Ruth Wallen
Fred Muram
Finally, for kicking the stuffing out of an advertising slogan, there’s Chrissie White, a high school sophomore in the Seattle area. Her Flickr page here.
David Shrigley’s foam piece is good, but Patrick Holderfield in Seattle has done a lot better on the same topic, and I’m wondering, you being in Seattle, why you didn’t link to him.
Excellent point, Brad. I would have linked were Patrick Holderfield linkable. His Web site now has nothing but the words, What’s Next?, on it, and his gallery offers only a small selection of recent work.