{"id":7914,"date":"2019-02-13T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:09:09","slug":"rodney-graham-at-303-gallery-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/rodney-graham-at-303-gallery-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Graham, Tattooed Man on Balcony at 303 Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tattoo of Popeye battling a squid inspired the cartoon-themed body art on this pensive pensioner, an invented character by Rodney Graham.\u00a0 \u00a0Standing on the balcony of his \u2018Vancouver Special\u2019 sporting a rebellious rockabilly style, the character \u2013 played by Graham \u2013 stands out amid the trappings of middle-class culture.\u00a0 (On view at Chelsea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.303gallery.com\/gallery-exhibitions\/rodney-graham9\">303 Gallery<\/a> through Feb 23<sup>rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7915\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/rodney-graham-at-303-gallery-4\/rodney_graham-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7915\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rodney_graham-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodney Graham, Tattooed Man on Balcony, two painted aluminum lightboxes with transmounted chromogenic transparencies, 109 5\/8 x 64 5\/8 x 7 inches, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tattoo of Popeye battling a squid inspired the cartoon-themed body art on this pensive pensioner, an invented character by Rodney Graham.\u00a0 \u00a0Standing on the balcony of his \u2018Vancouver Special\u2019 sporting a rebellious rockabilly style, the character \u2013 played by Graham \u2013 stands out amid the trappings of middle-class culture.\u00a0 (On view at Chelsea\u2019s 303 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/rodney-graham-at-303-gallery-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rodney Graham, Tattooed Man on Balcony at 303 Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[5404,8,3334,117,13,638,850,8282,634,8280,16,8281],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-5404","tag-art","tag-character-type","tag-chelsea","tag-gallery","tag-lightbox","tag-portrait","tag-rockabilly","tag-rodney-graham","tag-tattooed-man-on-balcony","tag-tour","tag-vancouver-special"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-23E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12044,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}