{"id":34699,"date":"2019-10-22T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=34699"},"modified":"2019-10-22T07:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:12:43","slug":"al-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/al-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"al freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/al-freeman\/alfreeman\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34700\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alfreeman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"6433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alfreeman.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/alfreeman-93x1024.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I love everything about these giant, soft, pleather &#8216;n polyester filled sculptures! The huge, limp Sriracha? Don&#8217;t get me started on how much I love THAT. This is the work at New York based artist Al Freeman. All of these pieces were part of her show\u00a0last year at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.56henry.nyc\">56 HENRY<\/a> in New York. Here&#8217;s a blurb from the gallery&#8217;s site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cVariously depicting everyday objects, including a beer can; a black soda can; a human foot; a human head; a hammer; a LaserDisc; a lava lamp; and a paper toilet seat cover; the works exaggerate items typically associated with masculine household settings. The sculptures drain objects of their virility and invest them with humor, replacing rigid geometries with flaccid forms.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I love everything about these giant, soft, pleather &#8216;n polyester filled sculptures! The huge, limp Sriracha? Don&#8217;t get me started on how much I love THAT. This is the work at New York based artist Al Freeman. All of these pieces were part of her show\u00a0last year at 56 HENRY in New York. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,12,493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34704,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699\/revisions\/34704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}