The Executive Briefcase: Pride and Joy Edition
JC HUDSEARS
Is my temporary department store installation in Hamtramck's Public Pool gallery space. Show opens Nov. 17, 2012 to Dec. 22, 2012
In this installation I am exploring how department stores of old used marketing and consumerism to feed generations of people with everything they needed in life including broadening their imaginative horizons. My imagination was fed by the "wish books" we would receive in the mail every Christmas. As an artist, what lessons can be learned in how to sell? Are there ways to market artwork that can get people to daydream about oil painting and art and the possibilities of it? What ridiculous things am I willing to do to get people to notice the work and turn them into consumers? Department stores used things like Santa Claus and parades at times to do just those things. This show is part exhibition, part participatory event and part performance art. I hope you can join me and be a part of it.
The show also pokes at art world pricing and high end gallery structure. Is there a way to bypass that model and meet people at the ground floor, so to speak? All the while getting average people into collecting?
Is my temporary department store installation in Hamtramck's Public Pool gallery space. Show opens Nov. 17, 2012 to Dec. 22, 2012
In this installation I am exploring how department stores of old used marketing and consumerism to feed generations of people with everything they needed in life including broadening their imaginative horizons. My imagination was fed by the "wish books" we would receive in the mail every Christmas. As an artist, what lessons can be learned in how to sell? Are there ways to market artwork that can get people to daydream about oil painting and art and the possibilities of it? What ridiculous things am I willing to do to get people to notice the work and turn them into consumers? Department stores used things like Santa Claus and parades at times to do just those things. This show is part exhibition, part participatory event and part performance art. I hope you can join me and be a part of it.
The show also pokes at art world pricing and high end gallery structure. Is there a way to bypass that model and meet people at the ground floor, so to speak? All the while getting average people into collecting?
Watch my web interview by Animal New York where I discuss the show and Detroit in general.
Listen to my radio interview that aired on local public radio station WDET, where I talk about the exhibition.
Listen to my radio interview that aired on local public radio station WDET, where I talk about the exhibition.
Gorilla Santa At The Ears Portrait Studio @ JC HUDSEARS
To see the collection of photos from the Gorilla Santa booth for the sweet sweet pets of the world, click on photo at left.
To see the collection of photos from the Gorilla Santa booth for the sweet sweet pets of the world, click on photo at left.
EARS Portrait Studio At
JC HUDSEARS
To see the collection of photos from the grand opening of the JC HUDSEARS portrait studio, click on the photo at left.
JC HUDSEARS
To see the collection of photos from the grand opening of the JC HUDSEARS portrait studio, click on the photo at left.
Video
My TV commercial for the King Kong Electronic Panic Playset. Product available for a limited time only at all JC HUDSEARS locations (there was only one and now it's closed).
A short video of a whirlygig toy I made.
My King Kong Panic Playset. Inspired by those awful vibrating football games of the 1970s.
A short video showing off the Mugshot Bobble Heads.
The artist Gilda Snowden stopped by to shoot some video of the show and try out some products. Check it out!
This is a video of me on the fake talk show Under The Palm trying to explain some things about my fake department store JC HudsEars and some of the reasoning behind my exhibition.