credit Heidi Cody
American Alphabet (Installation; 2000)lt;br> Heidi Cody creates light boxes with letters from corporate logos. So far, Cody has not had any legal troubles, and ad agencies have even purchased parts of the Alphabet.
credit Laura Splan
Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft (Installation; 2000)lt;br>Laura Splan has latch-hooked and sculpted tranquilizers, painkillers and antipsychotic drugs into large, soft pillows. Each pillow is approximately 3.5 feet long and one foot high.
credit Ray Beldner/Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Who’s Afraid of George Washington? (2003; After Warhol’s Red Liz, 1962)lt;br>"Liz" is one of a series of 20th century masterpieces that artist Ray Beldner recreated using U.S currency. Although Beldner has not been sued, he has been threatened by artists’ estates for appropriating their work, most notably, Pablo Picasso’s. This piece is based on Andy Warhol’s silkscreen.
credit Enrique Chagoya/Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
The Enlightened Savage (Installation; 2000)lt;br>Enrique Chagoya appropriates images from art history and popular culture, and juxtaposes them in absurd and humorous ways. He uses cannibalism as a metaphor to describe how dominant cultures write history and claim ideas, traditions, images and objects. Turning it around, he himself cannibalizes images, including religious icons, commercial products, hooded Mexican wrestlers, Disney characters and artworks from Goya, Courbet and Warhol.
