Chad Person
Addressing the confluence of economy and power structures throughout history, Chad Person employs an array of mediums in order to illustrate concepts of cultural dominance, consumerism and Manifest Destiny. While his reconfigured dollar-bill collages, aptly titled the Tax Cut Series, speak to cap... Read more
- Chad Person
- Born: 1978
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Giving Up on Underdog
08/17 |
Mayukh Sen
Whether it’s Oprah or Working Girl, we’ve all been told that we can be success stories. Greed, determination, and an insatiable need to rise to the top have been made to look romantic and saintly by popular media. Gazing down pathetically at his iPhone, Chad Person’s inflatable Underdog is the anthesis of saintliness. The conceptual artist has taken this symbol of comic book heroism and made him to look tired and worn. He sits in a pool of the vitamin pills that supply him with his power. His ruse has been uncovered; he’s been rendered helpless. Chad Person’s first solo exhibition in New York, A Hero Never Fails, unflinchingly satirizes the of fallacy American heroism.
Past Events
Go East - curated by Mark Moore Gallery
at Joshua Liner Gallery | New York, New York
thru 19 May. - Kenichi Yokono, Yoram Wolberger, and 3 other artists
Reception: 04/19, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Chad Person: A Hero Never Fails
at Freight + Volume | New York, New York
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