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yamamanamaIt was the Museum of Bad Art's idea to have bits of its collection at the Wildlife Center, if you're wondering. I know I was.
A mix of awesome, misguided, and terrifying.
Annie's Downstairs Secret: Impressed by how well they worked on her pets' and her own teeth, Annie used Crest Whitestrips to brighten her toenails.
One of us thought this was something. And by one of us, I mean I don't remember if Devin, Jessica, or the lady who designs clothes and has a pet guinea pig had that thought, nor do I remember what they thought she looked like.
Drilling For Eggs: Green alligator flames dominate the foreground and a bright pink sky provides the backdrop for this disquieting depiction of a color-altered future in which eggs, a renewable resource, have replaced traditional hydrocarbon fuels. The artist is saying, in no uncertain terms, that unless we learn to conserve our priceless resources, the yolk will be on us.
Ferret in a Brothel: The anonymous painter of this work has inexplicably chosen to depict a ferret as a "lady of the evening" in a Victorian room featuring flowered wallpaper and luxurious velvet curtains. She wears only a long pearl necklace and gazes provocatively at the viewer as she dances unashamedly to the music playing on a vintage Victrola record player. The reversed eigth notes may hint at a secret meaning in the music being played backwards, e.g., "Paul is dead", or, more likely, a reflection of the artist's unfamiliarity with proper musical notation.
Chicken in the Kitchen: Returning home from a hard day at work, Super-Chicken finds dinner on the table. He is not amused.
Bruno: It is interesting to ponder the fate of the owner of the rucksack next to a Bengal tiger standing in shallow water. Had the noble beast eaten an average size man or woman, his belly would probably hang into, or at least skim, the puddle. It is probably safe to conclude that either the owner was a small child, or has abandoned the pack and is the object of Bruno's hungry, vaguely man-faced gaze.
Shot down!… Yeti Persists: Sublimating his rage after being spurned by a Russian woman, the artist represented himself as the legendary abominable snowman in a fearsome posed. Upon completing the self-portrait, he took it to an open field and shot it with a shotgun. The text translated from Russian reads, "You and me… and coffee?" This painting is an acknowledgement of the potentially painful consequence of rejection and shows the artist's resolve to continue reaching out to others. In his discussion of the piece, he alludes to "the frustration of being misunderstood, the questioning of identity, and the desperate need to be loved that could drive a yeti out of the woods and into cozy cafés."
Note, the photograph came out terrible. To sate you, here is a picture of Nina Eating Chips
Prosthetic Claw: Inspired by the film Jurassic Park, many have speculated about the possibility of using traces of fossilized dinosaur DNA to produce a living Tyrannosaurus rex. Advances in cell-engineering techniques have led others to speculate about the possibility of using stem cells to grow human tissue. One scientist, Dr. Jose Cibelli, went so far as to secretly clone his own DNA inside a cow egg.
Prosthetic Claw portrays the unexpected results in this ethical boundary-stretching field of interspecies cloning. The central figure's immaculate white shoe contrasts with the grotesquely poor grooming of the hand, which is depicted in a universally understood gesture. The artist seems to be saying that these experiments will result in a giant "goose egg". The heavy-handed image is marred by a clumsily executed background of straight-from-the-tube oil paint colors that have become all too familiar to the MOBA curatorial staff.
Birdbrain: Unlike the sacrificial canaries in a coal mine, the seagulls in this metaphorical painting are free to leave when they sense conditions are deteriorating.
Woman Riding Crustacean: Possibly inspired by Debra Winger riding a mechanical bull in Urban Cowboy (1980), this image of what appears to be a blow-up doll mounted atop a giant lobster looks unfinished. It may be a study for a larger, hopefully more erotically realized, work.
My Darling's Chestnut Mare: This is an astonishing depiction of a Snow White look-alike with truly tiny hands, feeding cherries to a most cheerful and somewhat diminutive nag. This piece was framed as you now see it by the artist, and hung for more than twenty years in the home: a testament to the adhesive quality of scotch tape.
Safe at Home: The old-town team runner successfully avoids the catcher's tag at the plate, only to be swallowed by a mysterious fan. The viewer is left to wonder why the Red Sox player decided to return home from first base.
Burning Question: Who the fuck thought bacon cookies were a good idea?
A mix of awesome, misguided, and terrifying.
Annie's Downstairs Secret: Impressed by how well they worked on her pets' and her own teeth, Annie used Crest Whitestrips to brighten her toenails.
One of us thought this was something. And by one of us, I mean I don't remember if Devin, Jessica, or the lady who designs clothes and has a pet guinea pig had that thought, nor do I remember what they thought she looked like.
Drilling For Eggs: Green alligator flames dominate the foreground and a bright pink sky provides the backdrop for this disquieting depiction of a color-altered future in which eggs, a renewable resource, have replaced traditional hydrocarbon fuels. The artist is saying, in no uncertain terms, that unless we learn to conserve our priceless resources, the yolk will be on us.
Ferret in a Brothel: The anonymous painter of this work has inexplicably chosen to depict a ferret as a "lady of the evening" in a Victorian room featuring flowered wallpaper and luxurious velvet curtains. She wears only a long pearl necklace and gazes provocatively at the viewer as she dances unashamedly to the music playing on a vintage Victrola record player. The reversed eigth notes may hint at a secret meaning in the music being played backwards, e.g., "Paul is dead", or, more likely, a reflection of the artist's unfamiliarity with proper musical notation.
Chicken in the Kitchen: Returning home from a hard day at work, Super-Chicken finds dinner on the table. He is not amused.
Bruno: It is interesting to ponder the fate of the owner of the rucksack next to a Bengal tiger standing in shallow water. Had the noble beast eaten an average size man or woman, his belly would probably hang into, or at least skim, the puddle. It is probably safe to conclude that either the owner was a small child, or has abandoned the pack and is the object of Bruno's hungry, vaguely man-faced gaze.
Shot down!… Yeti Persists: Sublimating his rage after being spurned by a Russian woman, the artist represented himself as the legendary abominable snowman in a fearsome posed. Upon completing the self-portrait, he took it to an open field and shot it with a shotgun. The text translated from Russian reads, "You and me… and coffee?" This painting is an acknowledgement of the potentially painful consequence of rejection and shows the artist's resolve to continue reaching out to others. In his discussion of the piece, he alludes to "the frustration of being misunderstood, the questioning of identity, and the desperate need to be loved that could drive a yeti out of the woods and into cozy cafés."
Note, the photograph came out terrible. To sate you, here is a picture of Nina Eating Chips
Prosthetic Claw: Inspired by the film Jurassic Park, many have speculated about the possibility of using traces of fossilized dinosaur DNA to produce a living Tyrannosaurus rex. Advances in cell-engineering techniques have led others to speculate about the possibility of using stem cells to grow human tissue. One scientist, Dr. Jose Cibelli, went so far as to secretly clone his own DNA inside a cow egg.
Prosthetic Claw portrays the unexpected results in this ethical boundary-stretching field of interspecies cloning. The central figure's immaculate white shoe contrasts with the grotesquely poor grooming of the hand, which is depicted in a universally understood gesture. The artist seems to be saying that these experiments will result in a giant "goose egg". The heavy-handed image is marred by a clumsily executed background of straight-from-the-tube oil paint colors that have become all too familiar to the MOBA curatorial staff.
Birdbrain: Unlike the sacrificial canaries in a coal mine, the seagulls in this metaphorical painting are free to leave when they sense conditions are deteriorating.
Woman Riding Crustacean: Possibly inspired by Debra Winger riding a mechanical bull in Urban Cowboy (1980), this image of what appears to be a blow-up doll mounted atop a giant lobster looks unfinished. It may be a study for a larger, hopefully more erotically realized, work.
My Darling's Chestnut Mare: This is an astonishing depiction of a Snow White look-alike with truly tiny hands, feeding cherries to a most cheerful and somewhat diminutive nag. This piece was framed as you now see it by the artist, and hung for more than twenty years in the home: a testament to the adhesive quality of scotch tape.
Safe at Home: The old-town team runner successfully avoids the catcher's tag at the plate, only to be swallowed by a mysterious fan. The viewer is left to wonder why the Red Sox player decided to return home from first base.
Burning Question: Who the fuck thought bacon cookies were a good idea?
