{"id":433,"date":"2009-04-15T14:12:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/the_unnautral_helping_hand_of\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:12:32","slug":"the_unnautral_helping_hand_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/the_unnautral_helping_hand_of.html","title":{"rendered":"The unnautral helping hand of art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In droughts in Southern California, concerned homeowners paint their dead grass green.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelbuitron.googlepages.com\/\">Michael Buitron<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/manyafox.com\/national%20parks\/facade1+copy.jpg.php\">Manya Fox<\/a>, a similar strategy became a critique. Instead of disguising a problem, they highlighted it. Buitron added plastic leaves to bare branches in his project, <a href=\"http:\/\/imoralist.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/laud-four-los-angeles-parks.html\"><i>Four Los Angeles Parks<\/i><\/a>. Fox flung a deep green tarp over a dead spot. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/michaelbuitron1-5045.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/michaelbuitron1-5045.html','popup','width=300,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/michaelbuitron1-thumb-200x266-5045.jpg\" alt=\"michaelbuitron1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/manyafox2-5048.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/manyafox2-5048.html','popup','width=400,height=321,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/manyafox2-thumb-200x160-5048.jpg\" alt=\"manyafox2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttonberesculler.com\/\">SuttonBeresCuller<\/a>, replacing nature with a madcap, Bladerunner zeal. Below, images from their portable park, fake island in the real Lake Washington and their green cave of a mini-mart, the last still in progress.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerpark-5051.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerpark-5051.html','popup','width=500,height=333,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerpark-thumb-200x133-5051.jpg\" alt=\"suttonberescullerpark.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerisland-5054.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerisland-5054.html','popup','width=450,height=302,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerisland-thumb-200x134-5054.jpg\" alt=\"suttonberescullerisland.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerminimart-5057.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerminimart-5057.html','popup','width=450,height=347,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/suttonberescullerminimart-thumb-200x154-5057.jpg\" alt=\"suttonberescullerminimart.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler are represented in Seattle by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Artists\/Pages\/SuttonBeresCuller.html\">Lawrimore Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In droughts in Southern California, concerned homeowners paint their dead grass green. For Michael Buitron and Manya Fox, a similar strategy became a critique. Instead of disguising a problem, they highlighted it. Buitron added plastic leaves to bare branches in his project, Four Los Angeles Parks. Fox flung a deep green tarp over a dead [&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-433","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\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}