How Some Rich People Died

Shawnee Barton
"How Some Rich People Died"
Bathtub video

Below are excerpts from Shawnee's artist statement and list of her least favorite things.

I am interested in contributing to the depletion of art-world-angst through the creation of humorous, clever, and/or lighthearted work. I like to have fun making art and I want my viewers to have fun experiencing the objects and images I create.

A list of my least favorite things
Tami
Ivory Soap
Black Jelly Beans
Cilantro
Ear aches
Snakes

Shawnee Barton website

Examination of the Over-Sensitive

Elizabeth Huey

"Examination of the Over-Sensitive"
48 x 96"

Elizabeth Huey gets her inspiration from:

Random google searches, church basements, mental illness and master paintings, machinery, colored waters, crazy rants from gutter bums, ancient psychological manuals and old dictionaries, at the dog run, in my bathtub, in my dreams, American and European history, clothing and costumes, muffled giggling, documentaries new music and the my warped ideas about the wilderness.

Got to love that!

Elizabeth Huey website

The Hyena and Other Men

Pieter Hugo

Mallam Galadima Ahmadu with Jamis, Nigeria
C-Print
2005

Pieter Hugo created the series The Hyena Men while traveling in Nigeria with a troupe of animal charmers and their collection of tenuously domesticated hyenas, monkeys and snakes. The portraits feature groupings of men and animals surrounded by the barren urban centers of northern Nigeria. Taken during quiet moments between the spectacles of street performances, the photographs depict a stillness that subverts the tense physicality of the animals and their trainers.

Excerpt from the Yossi Milo Gallery Press Release November 2007