{"id":1000,"date":"2009-09-03T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/kenny_scharf_revels_in_imagina\/"},"modified":"2009-09-03T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:26:20","slug":"kenny_scharf_revels_in_imagina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/kenny_scharf_revels_in_imagina.html","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Scharf revels in imaginary regionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a New York artist who seeks to score a public art commission in a park in Portland, Oregon, what comes to mind? Leaping fish, forests and forest stumps, mountains and\/or a water feature? How about an emblem of a locked and loaded gray sky or maybe, if you don&#8217;t mind ripping off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/archives\/1991\/9103080014.asp\">Chris Burden<\/a> (proposed 1991) by way of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/trains---from-lonesome-whistle.html\">Jeff Koons<\/a> train (proposed 2009), a full-scale fishing boat hanging off the side of a building?<\/p>\n<p>If none of that appeals, you&#8217;re safe with a totem pole, even though the tribes that created the original models never lived that far south.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennyscharf.com\/\">Kenny Scharf<\/a> made a smashing success of the last option. Starting with a cliche isn&#8217;t a problem. It&#8217;s where you end up that matters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Say it, no ideas but in things. <i>Patterson<\/i>, William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Jameson Park at the edge of the Pearl District, New York Pop Shop tribalism:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kennysharftotem.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kennysharftotem.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"278\" height=\"398\" \/><\/span>Detail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djschwend\/3047067334\/\">via<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kennysharfdetail.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kennysharfdetail.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"360\" height=\"485\" \/><\/span>Detail, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/fashion\/gap\/\">via<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kennysharfdetail2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/Kennysharfdetail2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"390\" height=\"269\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a New York artist who seeks to score a public art commission in a park in Portland, Oregon, what comes to mind? Leaping fish, forests and forest stumps, mountains and\/or a water feature? How about an emblem of a locked and loaded gray sky or maybe, if you don&#8217;t mind ripping off Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}