Unsolicited
Collaboration With Shaun Odell
2004
Foamboard,
contact paper, and framed 8" x 10" print of jpg downloaded
from internet
I
recreated in three dimensions a portion of a drawing by the artist
Shaun Odell, which I had downloaded from the internet. Shaun is
a San Francisco-based artist who is achieving a large amount of
success in the artworld and was recently recognized by the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has developed a distinctive
style of drawing that explores his own cosmology of ideas and
concerns.
In
this "unsolicited collaboration" I used materials familiar
to my own work (foamboard and contact paper) in an attempt to
create an un-asked for collaboration between Shaun and myself.
I wanted to explore issues of authorship, collaboration, and personal
boundaries. I am friends with Shaun and go to school with him,
but did not ask his permission to “work” with him.
The
final work consists of a floor-based sculpture and an 8"
x 10" framed printout of the downloaded jpg of Shaun's drawing.
Technically, there is an optimum vantage point to viewing the
sculpture, so that it looks similiar to the drawing.
>>
view more of Shaun's work at Jack
Hanley Gallery
detail
|
