Fun With Fungi 2010 (8), 2010 - Jason Middlebrook
About the Work
About Fun With Fungi 2010 (8)
Jason Middlebrook's trippy Fun With Fungi 2010 series of 40 blown-glass mushroom lamps reflects the artist's fascination with bringing the pastoral into an unnatural context. Springing from a circular black base, each unique mushroom references the wild fungus ...Read More
Jason Middlebrook's trippy Fun With Fungi 2010 series of 40 blown-glass mushroom lamps reflects the artist's fascination with bringing the pastoral into an unnatural context. Springing from a circular black base, each unique mushroom references the wild fungus' natural form while incorporating warm, hallucinogenic color and a whimsy that is distinctly Middlebrook.
Fun With Fungi 2010 is not Middlebrook's first foray into crafting funky mushrooms from glass. In 2009 he installed 25 fiberglass fungi in the garden of the Aspen Art Museum, toying, as usual, with the relationship between nature and artifice.Read Less
Fun With Fungi 2010 is not Middlebrook's first foray into crafting funky mushrooms from glass. In 2009 he installed 25 fiberglass fungi in the garden of the Aspen Art Museum, toying, as usual, with the relationship between nature and artifice.Read Less
About the Artist
About Jason Middlebrook
Jason Middlebrook gathers his creative inspiration from nature and from humans' endless fear and misunderstanding that leads to our destructive impact on the earth. From ...Read More
Jason Middlebrook gathers his creative inspiration from nature and from humans' endless fear and misunderstanding that leads to our destructive impact on the earth. From sculptural installations of salvaged materials to colorfully drafted renderings of flora and fauna, Middlebrook questions the relationships between humans, nature, and art. While his work is certainly critical of that relationship, Middlebrook also finds beauty in the garbage, detritus, and collisions of man and nature.
Middlebrook has both enlightened and offended with his controversial ideas about the places where art lives and how art is viewed. Based on the quotation, "Museums are places where art goes to die," Middlebrook did several projects critiquing museums' authority, treating museum spaces as "graveyards for art." His work is often site-specific, challenging traditional expectations for boundaries between civilization, culture, and nature.Read Less
Middlebrook has both enlightened and offended with his controversial ideas about the places where art lives and how art is viewed. Based on the quotation, "Museums are places where art goes to die," Middlebrook did several projects critiquing museums' authority, treating museum spaces as "graveyards for art." His work is often site-specific, challenging traditional expectations for boundaries between civilization, culture, and nature.Read Less
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