Koons seems to have taken a palmful of blue gazing balls and blown them out into the gallery, landing
on classical statues and Midwestern lawn ornaments, which have coalesced in pure white plaster.
Not exact matches
But more often, her work is deeply visually pleasurable, isolating images or objects — a dress, a
classical statue, a bowl — against colorful monochrome backgrounds for analysis, like forensic evidence, or brain - food canapés
on a tray.
But she often coupled her criticality with a sly humor and an exacting, alluring beauty, as in the 1983 — 88 series «Objects of Desire,» for which she cut out items from magazines, ranging from dresses and bowls to bondage gear and
classical statues, which she then rephotographed and printed
on solid fields of color that matched their frames.
Continuing her series of animated paintings, there are several wall works made from printed PVC with industry marker drawings of
classical figures
on them that have aluminum printed faces that gesture toward
classical Roman and Greek
statues.
Featuring varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our booth examines the legacy of
classical sculpture in Marie and Orensanz» work, and looks at how both artists draw
on a tradition of fragmentation that comes from the display of broken
statues from antiquity.