Plastic rainbow with poisonous mushroom of upstate New York, 2025
found objects, clay, paint, steel, 9’ x 6’ x 16”
$5,600
“Plastic rainbow with poisonous mushrooms of upstate New York” is a sculpture made from scavenged brightly colored recycled industrial and post-consumer plastics. Rainbow imagery can be found in pop-culture memes, religious and spiritual parables, the manifest destiny and rugged individualism depicted in art-historical genres such as the Romanticism movement in the United States as well as a representation of the fight for equality for LGBTQ+ pride. As plastic is the antithesis of nature, the fabrication and placement of realistic seeming poisonous ceramic mushrooms encircling the base of the rainbow act as a cautionary tale to the artifice.
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