Jenny Walty

Brynna and I stopped by Art in General's opening last night for the launch of the New Comissions, an innovation in the way the organization supports emerging artists. Instead of organizing a big group show supporting ten or twenty artists with a small artists fee, there were only two artists exhibiting in the main gallery who each received a significant comission to support large scale projects.

This piece pictured above is the comsissioned project by Melissa Martin, a scale model of her father (seated in the striped shirt) made out of bubble gum and then butchered and packaged like pork or beef. It was both fascinating and creepy to see what a person would look like after being butchered. The overwhelming smell of the gum is a bit confusing because the meat looked so real. It even bled some sort of red bubble gum juice which pooled in the styrofoam plates.