Bubblegum Icon: a collaborative painting/sculpture hybrid
Bubblegum Icon
Stephanie Gerolimatos & Mark Bodah
26 x 21 inches
durabond, wire mesh, acrylic, dryer hose, foil, pink flocking
You know how it is when you start a piece and everything seems fine for a while and then somewhere along the way you realize you’re just not feeling it? Sometimes, the answer is to ignore it for a bit and come back later with a fresh perspective. Sometimes the answer is to chuck it in the dumpster. And sometimes the answer is to leave it for dead in your friend’s studio until she decides to try and resuscitate it McGuyver-style with some aluminum foil and pink flocking. Option number three is how “Bubblegum Icon” was born. When my pal Mark Bodah abandoned this piece I just couldn’t stand to let it die a peaceful, dignified death. Well I mean, it was sitting there all bones and pale as a ghost. So like a well meaning mother, I force fed the child til it was fat and rosy. Remember, it’s the thought that counts.
To see a detail photo of Mark’s and my bastard love child, please follow the jump!
Oh yeah, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Perhaps my new year resolution should be to leave well enough alone? Nah. There are things I like about this one and things I’m not so keen on, but in the end it was fun to work on and I walked away with some new ideas.
aheh,
-Steph
January 2, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Now you’ve got me wondering how Desi & Lucy would have been if they were artists. Wait a minute. They were, in there own little, early-televised way.
“Lucy! How come you pulled that thing that I threw away out of the trash?”
“Oh Ricky, it just looked too cute to throw away, and besides, I did something to it to make it better.”
For me, Desi & Lucy would have been more hilarious if they could have been a little more Pollock/Krasner…only without the booze and overturned kitchen tables.
January 2, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Oh but what’s drunken furniture tossing if not hilarity?
January 2, 2010 at 6:10 pm
your holding it the wrong way side wayz and it make me think of mans
fott print on the enviroment pipes industry there evrey
January 2, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Wrong way, eh? I’ll be sure to pass that along to the artist… hey, wait a minute.
I think I know get your meaning. Thanks for sharing your take on it, Gomez!
January 2, 2010 at 7:15 pm
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January 2, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Ew, Ew! These look like parasites. I recently fell asleep to a TV show called Monsters Inside Me. This painting is the stuff of my nightmares.
I like it.
January 3, 2010 at 1:07 am
hahaha! thanks Sara!
January 4, 2010 at 7:09 pm
It does look like something that would come out of someone’s wallpaper while they were sleeping on Night Gallery.
I bet I’m going to dream about mutant caterpillars in my government toothpaste again.
(But it’s pink, so it still makes me giggle)
January 4, 2010 at 8:35 pm
heeheehee it makes me giggle, too, Tarabu!
January 21, 2010 at 1:00 am
I would be interested and find out more about this art form. I want to be able to create large wire scultures. can anyone help
January 21, 2010 at 9:36 am
well this one’s made from durabond over steel mesh–the type used to cover roof gutters–that’s stretched and stapled over a wood and masonite panel. the wormy things are embedded dryer hose.
it’s tough to give advice if i don’t know more about what you’re planning, but if you want to make large wire sculpture you should start by looking into different types of wires, different gauge wires and their physical qualities. consider stuff like whether you want to install the work inside or outside, whether it will be free-standing or hang on a wall or from the ceiling. visit your local hardware store. it might be worth it to look into sculpture classes at a local university or art center.