![]() Untitled, furthermore, is of the size, proportions and scale of a painting, and it is intended to be installed on a wall. The reverse of the work shows the impressions where the jacket and the numbers 2006 pushed into the polystyrene, similar to the way the back of a painting reveals important clues to the artist’s technical practices. Like canvas pulled taught over stretcher bars, the jacket is confined within the bounds of the polystyrene, and the year of the work’s manufacture, 2006, is emblazoned at the bottom and stands in for the artist’s signature and inscription. In Untitled, Price has masterfully manipulated plastic to mimic a revered oil painting, or the medium that for many years has represented the most sacred, celebrated and valued visual art form. Price continues these investigations in the present work, a conceptual tour de force that criticizes commodity fetishization through its use of materials and the culturally loaded icon of the rebel’s bomber jacket. ![]() In fact, one of the defining characteristics of Price’s oeuvre is its isolation and examination of the salient aspects of the commercial industry-namely, how goods are made, distributed and assigned value-undertaken in order to hold a mirror up to our consumer culture, and illuminate the often unnoticed operations of desire. The artist often appropriates pirated or bootlegged materials, such as music, written texts and other media sourced from the internet, in order to circumvent the traditional sources of appropriation in art. Throughout a diverse body of work that includes sculpture, paintings, video and written work, Price questions how the goods we purchase can condition and even define our reality. One of the leading artists of the contemporary avant-garde, Seth Price has produced a cutting-edge body of work that excavates, destabilizes and re-presents the mechanics of consumption. Combining crisp lines and glittering golden chromatic hues with a surface that is in turns temptingly haptic and sleek, streamlined and smooth, Untitled is a work of incomparable allure and sultriness. Every wrinkle, pucker and seam in the folds of the once-pliable coat are rendered in painstaking detail, forming a nearly geological surface of mountain ridges, crests and valleys that snake and curve across the work, and the shape of the jacket has been precisely arranged so that its sartorial origins are unmistakable. Executed in vacuum-formed plastic, the work shows the contours of a bomber jacket encased in a solid expanse of polystyrene, suggesting that this golden idol is concerned with the deities of fashion and luxury. In August of 2019, she was purchased by David Prescott to be included in The Hangar at 743’s collection.Lustrous, radiant and gleaming, Seth Price’s Untitled emanates refinement and a subtle power. After nearly 10 years of service at McClellan, she was retired from service in December 1957.Īfter transitioning several times between retired and returned to service, as well as name changes including Dream Lover and Spirit of Tulsa, on Septemshe took her first flight as Old Glory. Originally assigned to the 12th Air Force in Italy, the records have not yet been discovered to indicate which squadron or unit she may have been assigned to while in Europe.Īfter returning to the US in July of 1945 she was recalled for use in an administrative role in Spokane, Washington, and eventually assigned to McClellan Field, California where she was modified by Hayes and redesignated as a TB-25N. After a complete restoration, she’s finally back in the air in her current military configuration. The B-25 Mitchell flying as Old Glory has had a long career ranging from Army Air Force bomber in WWII in the Mediterranean, to civilian fire bomber and tanker here in the United States. ![]()
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