Tony Tasset

Arrow Sculpture

Tony Tasset satirizes contemporary American culture while never losing sight of how much he loves it himself. Like 20th century artists Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, Tasset creates worksfurniture paintings, signage, monumentsthat seem so common that they hardly warrant another look. Yet it is exactly these simple things that inevitably influence the way we see the world.

Tassets Arrow Sculpture points to American obsession with rankings, like the 10 Best Lists that are sprinkled across the media landscape at the end of every year. As an artist in an enormously hierarchical, competitive art world, Tasset knows all too well that one day you're in, next day you're out, to paraphrase Heidi Klum of Project Runway. Tasset gently lampoons these lists and the peril of uni-dimensional measure to sum up and account for the complexities of the humans who create and consume products. Tasset, ever the consummate midWesterner, blunts his sly critique by using a Crayola crayon palette for his arrow paintings and sculptures, delivering his medicine with a bit of sweet. While his Arrow Sculpture seems simple, it acts like a mirror, reflecting back to the viewer their own predilections and prejudices.

Tony Tasset satirizes contemporary American culture while never losing sight of how much he loves it himself. Like 20th century artists Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, Tasset creates worksfurniture paintings, signage, monumentsthat seem so common that they hardly warrant another look. Yet it is exactly these simple things that inevitably influence the way we see the world.

Tassets Arrow Sculpture points to American obsession with rankings, like the 10 Best Lists that are sprinkled across the media landscape at the end of every year. As an artist in an enormously hierarchical, competitive art world, Tasset knows all too well that one day you're in, next day you're out, to paraphrase Heidi Klum of Project Runway. Tasset gently lampoons these lists and the peril of uni-dimensional measure to sum up and account for the complexities of the humans who create and consume products. Tasset, ever the consummate midWesterner, blunts his sly critique by using a Crayola crayon palette for his arrow paintings and sculptures, delivering his medicine with a bit of sweet. While his Arrow Sculpture seems simple, it acts like a mirror, reflecting back to the viewer their own predilections and prejudices.

Tony Tasset satirizes contemporary American culture while never losing sight of how much he loves it himself. Like 20th century artists Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, Tasset creates worksfurniture paintings, signage, monumentsthat seem so common that they hardly warrant another look. Yet it is exactly these simple things that inevitably influence the way we see the world.

Tassets Arrow Sculpture points to American obsession with rankings, like the 10 Best Lists that are sprinkled across the media landscape at the end of every year. As an artist in an enormously hierarchical, competitive art world, Tasset knows all too well that one day you're in, next day you're out, to paraphrase Heidi Klum of Project Runway. Tasset gently lampoons these lists and the peril of uni-dimensional measure to sum up and account for the complexities of the humans who create and consume products. Tasset, ever the consummate midWesterner, blunts his sly critique by using a Crayola crayon palette for his arrow paintings and sculptures, delivering his medicine with a bit of sweet. While his Arrow Sculpture seems simple, it acts like a mirror, reflecting back to the viewer their own predilections and prejudices.

Tony Tasset

Tony Tasset

Arrow Sculpture

Exhibition

Exhibition

Materials & Dimensions

Materials & Dimensions

Car paint, aluminum

117 x 195 x 39 inches

Year

Year

2016

Site

Site

176 W Wisconsin Ave.

Credits

Credits

Courtesy Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.

Tony Tasset

Mood Sculpture

Tony Tasset

Mood Sculpture

Tony Tasset

Mood Sculpture

Manolo Valdes

Reina Mariana

Manolo Valdes

Reina Mariana

Manolo Valdes

Reina Mariana

Jason S. Yi

Legend of the White Snake

Jason S. Yi

Legend of the White Snake

Jason S. Yi

Legend of the White Snake

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Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Visionary

George & Karen Oliver

Exhibition Partner

leader

Anonymous
Baird Center
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Kelli Gabel & Craig Karmazin
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thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

presenting

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Visionary

George & Karen Oliver

Exhibition Partner

leader

Anonymous
Baird Center
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Kelli Gabel & Craig Karmazin
GRAEF
Guardian Fine Art Services
Hawks Landscaping
Mark Jungers
New Land Enterprises
Raymond & Barbara Krueger
ManpowerGroup
National Endowment for the Arts
Nonprofit Management Fund
Austin Ramirez
Syslogic Inc
Wisconsin Arts Board

Connector

BMO
Foley & Lardner
Imagine MKE
MajicPro
Milwaukee Magazine
Open Pantry
PNC Bank
PwC
Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
US Bank
WeycoGroup
Woman's Club of Wisconsin Foundation

Sculpture Milwaukee is always free and open to the public thanks to our generous supporters.

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thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

presenting

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Visionary

George & Karen Oliver

Exhibition Partner

leader

Anonymous
Baird Center
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Kelli Gabel & Craig Karmazin
GRAEF
Guardian Fine Art Services
Hawks Landscaping
Mark Jungers
New Land Enterprises
Raymond & Barbara Krueger
ManpowerGroup
National Endowment for the Arts
Nonprofit Management Fund
Austin Ramirez
Syslogic Inc
Wisconsin Arts Board

Connector

BMO
Foley & Lardner
Imagine MKE
MajicPro
Milwaukee Magazine
Open Pantry
PNC Bank
PwC
Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
US Bank
WeycoGroup
Woman's Club of Wisconsin Foundation

Sculpture Milwaukee is always free and open to the public thanks to our generous supporters.

We work with trusted community partners to ensure great contemporary art is accessible to all.

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