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Why revisit Andy Warhols Brillo boxes in One Mans Treasure Is Another Mans Trash?

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Why revisit Andy Warhols Brillo boxes in One Mans Treasure Is Another Mans Trash?

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I have always been interested in Warhol’s objects and how they revisited the ready-made. He wanted to transform the consumer object into Pop Art and today they are considered high art. In the eighties, you couldn’t give those Brillo boxes away, now they sell for 170K. My goal was to dismantle them again and turn the box form into something functional, such as furniture or a Brillo box planter. I wanted to give Warhol’s ready made a real function. One of the issues that I have had in playing with art history is the iconographic stamp that weighs it down. Some Brillo transformations were more successful than others. In the end, my favorite was the Brillo Box Pallet Chair. Pallets are universal and made to ship goods all over the world. I like the tension that this creates and the chair serves a great function. These pieces did not sell, and I look forward to having them back in the studio. What is the most unexpected response you’ve received from a viewer of your work? I once was verball

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