Chuck Ramirez Piñata: Gregory, 2002 Pigment inkjet print, 60 x 48 in
From intricate sculptures carved from granite to precise brushstrokes on a canvas, art takes many forms. It could be drawings, pottery, jewelry or woodworkings. It could come from the mind of one of the Old Masters or your own child. A urinal can even become art. “The exhibition starts with this idea of these mass-produced, readymade objects and materials that artists are drawn to, but looking at contemporary artists who are really kind of pushing those boundaries and really expanding upon that concept that Duchamp began over 100 years ago,” Lana Meador, SAMA’s Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, says. She adds that artists in this exhibit are “revealing other things about readymade that maybe Duchamp was ignoring,” such as the hidden labor that went into the pieces.
