Tag: Whitney Museum

Jeff Koons at the Whitney Museum

Jeff Koons’ name is synonymous with high production values and what the New York Times called ‘art for billionaires and oligarchs.’ Despite the exclusivity, most Koons works are designed to appeal, from the flowering sculpture currently installed at Rockefeller Center to this stainless steel heart and aluminum Playdoh pile at the Whitney Museum where the artist is currently enjoying a career retrospective. (Through October 19th).

Jeff Koons, Hanging Heart (Violet/Gold), 1994-2006, mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating.

Wade Guyton at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2006 (on right) and Untitled, 2008 (left of couple)
Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2006 (on right) and Untitled, 2008 (left of couple)

Ever struggle to print something from the computer?  Wade Guyton heroizes the process, creating his artwork by devising images on his computer, then battling to run his linen supports through large printers.  The untitled piece on the left started as an x typed on his screen; the multi-panel piece on the right as the word ‘us.’ (At the Whitney Museum through 1/13.)