Engine 40 Studios
G A R D J O N E S S C U L P T O RBaltimore, MD
Engine40
Current Work
Sweet Crude 2008 steel, wood
Waiting For Change 2008 cast iron, wood, fabric, 200,800 pennies
Altar 2008 wood, fabric, 100,000 pennies
I. E. D. 2007 steel, glass, 2,000 pennies
Avarice 2007 wood, steel, 150,000 pennies
Time 2005 wood, brass, steel, 700 pennies
Collusion 2004 steel, 200,000 pennies
White House / Oil House 2003 steel 144" x 144" x 204"
Values 2001 steel, concrete, 200,000 pennies
Pyramid Scheme 2001 steel, 200,000 pennies
This collection of works is situated front and center of real and imagined life scenarios. The installations dwell on some of America’s most prominent activities, incessant war / violence, the addiction and consumption of Oil and the celebrity of Money.
If the media is the message then the message has become money.
The penny is an ultimate truth about our culture.
The penny, as the grain of sand or drop of rain, is both insignificant an enormously powerful.
The penny is that which we, as Americans, allow to go uncollected if it rolls too far into the gutter. We do not wish to be seen as so needy to case pennies, and yet it is the nuclei of our economic system, divisible only by itself.
Baltimore, MD
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