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RejectEffect started painting because we like it. We also like (in no particular order): Philip Guston Pieter Bruegel Maurizio Cattelan Franz Ackerman Nicole Eisenman Alexis Rockman Sophie Calle fat butts blowup dolls Francisco Goya mechanical singing and moving dolls "Spider Spud" Mister Potato Head Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends creepy clowns (just Tim) Steven Nelson lime Jell-O Dana Schutz Claire Pentecost wind-up toys puffy clouds stuffed animals Sharon Hayes Wim Delvoye Erwin Wurm Appropriation art The Muppet Show Samurai Jack Fluxus Artists 8 bit video games Miwon Kwon big thick dildos Marie Shurkus Hieronymus Bosch robots remote controlled cars Happy Famous Artists Tom Friedman animal masks wigs Halloween costumes toy pirate ships Julia Childs Steve Burns prosthetic body parts Hydrangeas Viburnams huge Styrofoam planes Monty Python and the Holy Grail moist cake with loads of creamy frosting mall walkers martinis David LaChapelle light sabers chocolate pudding
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| We find potential in these disparate sources of stimuli to create paintings. Our paintings, which we work on collaboratively, are based on the juxtaposition of images that are appropriated from various media images, real objects and fragments of art historical paintings. The images we borrow possess their own history and meanings, which are playfully recontextualized into situations of conflict. We consider the paintings to function similar to a video still, an instant of a larger narrative, frozen in time. We reference recognizable characters from popular culture whose appearance is slightly altered to subvert their common identity. The menacing Darth Vader is represented as dumb-founded and confused and Spider-Man, society's protector against evil, is portrayed as a mischievous toddler with a disregard for his responsibilities as a super hero. The new identities reveal a fractured persona. It is also our intent to visually stimulate through a dramatic pallet, variation of paint applications, and progressively complex compositions. We believe our conceptual and formal decisions create narratives that extend the dialogue within the boundaries of Pop art and appropriation.
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Ackerman's Masochistic Prick Machine
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Weirdoes From Another Planet
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Laguardian Bunny Butt Sniffers Strike Back
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Laguardian Bunny Butt Sniffers Strike Back (detail)
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Hail to the Thief
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This is the front entrance to the newly opened Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MOCAD). Hail to the Theif was in the exhibition, Eight Days in June.
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| Permanent Food oil on canvas 36" x 48" |
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| Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse oil on canvas 36" x 48" |
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The Amazing Spider Spud
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The Forking of Darth Tater
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| Plastic Surgery #1 oil on canvas 16" x 20" |
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Cindy Sherman Taking a Poo
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Sol Lewitt as a High School Janitor
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| Force Air One oil on canvas 48" x 36" |
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| Garden of Delight oil on canvas 38" x 42" |
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