I ate some crow on this one. I saw a birds eye shot of the Jackson Pollock minature in The Star and thought it was real, never having gotten around to actually reading the article I thought it was this artist I had heard about a long time ago who would create Jackson Pollock replicas in front of an audience as performance art. So I'm telling the guys we need to make it to this gallery first to make sure we see this artist in action. Needless to say we got there and the gallery had several little stands with these minatures of various famous artist's working in their studios. The top photo is of Jackson Pollock, the second is of Jasper Johns and the third is Clifford Still. So even though the show made me look dumb, it was still my favorite of this first friday shows. Check out more of Joe Fig's work at www.joefig.com .
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Dear KC Art Geek,
ReplyDeleteThanks for making it out to the show, I love KC and am excited to be showing there. I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed it, though you thought you were going to see something else. Even though I don't try to "fool" the viewer into thinking these are real, in reproduction that tends to happen (see my photographs).
I really enjoyed your story. Don't be too hard on yourself!
Best,
Joe Fig