{"id":22218,"date":"2022-11-06T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=22218"},"modified":"2022-11-06T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T13:30:03","slug":"jeffu-warmouth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2022\/11\/06\/jeffu-warmouth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffu Warmouth\u2019s Surreal Gags About Our \u2018Struggles To Be Human\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amidst the absurdist gags and studio craft of Jeffu Warmouth\u2019s exhibition \u201cStamp Sketches & Stomp Boxes,\u201d<\/a> at Boston Sculptors Gallery from Oct. 5 to Nov. 6, 2022, is something about how we fashion our identities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Head Makes the Man\u201d is a torso, dressed in a black double-breasted suit and tie, holding up an inflated ball depicting Warmouth\u2019s head with his signature curly mustache. \u201cTime to Inflate\u201d is a bike pump connected by a hose to inflate one of Warmouth\u2019s ball-heads.<\/p>\n

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Jeffu Warmouth and Ellen Wetmore’s “Jeffu Model Kit,” 2022, PVC, urethane & epoxy resins, paint. (Courtesy of the artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cJeffu Plastic Model Kit,\u201d created in collaboration with his wife, artist Ellen Wetmore, is a 7-foot-tall gray plastic model kit that invites you to image snapping out the pieces and assembling a life-sized toy of the artist. Have him barefoot or wearing shoes. Choose hands pointing or holding a beverage can or commanding TV remote.<\/p>\n

Warmouth writes<\/a> that many of the ideas here came out of his 2015 residency at the American Academy in Rome, where his sketches\u2019 \u201ccartoonish dissociations and grotesque transformations of iconic body parts seemed related to ideas about our struggles to be human.\u201d And an artist.<\/p>\n