GET FUNKY WITH IT
In SAM’s Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture , Xenobia Bailey’s Work Shines By Jas Keimig A dirty toilet made of muddy-colored ceramic. A hot pot that licks back. A sculpture that reimagines James Ensor’s 19th-century painting of Christ moving through a crowd as a procession of plaster clowns. These are some of the ways West Coast artists in the 1960s and ‘70s rebelled against the cool, abstract, Pop Art, and minimalist principles that prevailed in the East Coast art market...
