{"id":52250,"date":"2015-11-11T14:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T19:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=52250"},"modified":"2015-11-11T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T19:02:04","slug":"new-sculpture-in-brooklyn-asks-yo-or-oy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/new-sculpture-in-brooklyn-asks-yo-or-oy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sculpture in Brooklyn Asks: Yo or Oy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tablet Magazine has the story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahkass.com\/newdebsite\/artwork.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Kass<\/a>, a modern artist whose works often produce their meanings by <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahkass.com\/newdebsite\/warholproject.html\" target=\"_blank\">re-imagining the style of Andy Warhol<\/a>, for one, (also\u00a0Gertrude Stein and Jackson Pollack) has created a huge, yellow, sculpture that reads \u201cOY\u201d when looking from Brooklyn into Manhattan, and \u201cOY\u201d when doing the opposite. It\u2019s eight feet high, painted and made of aluminum. It will be on display until August.\u00a0Kass\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/11\/nyregion\/a-sculpture-with-something-to-say-lands-in-brooklyn-bridge-park.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0that she hatched the idea from a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arthag.typepad.com\/arthag\/2010\/10\/deborah-kass-paul-kasmin.html\" target=\"_blank\">painting<\/a>\u00a0she created in 2011, which itself was a play on Edward Ruscha\u2019s \u201cOOF\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/79298\" target=\"_blank\">painting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Of Kass\u2019s approach, the director of the Andy Warhol Museum once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/28\/arts\/design\/deborah-kasss-before-and-happily-ever-after-retrospective.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not so much her attempting to become Warhol or Streisand or any other subject that appears in the work, but it\u2019s how she as an individual identifies with them. As a lesbian Jewish artist from New York who is in love with Broadway and popular culture, she is thinking about artists of that background largely being\u00a0steamrollered by the canon of art history\u2014and making sure her voice is heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/194941\/heres-how-to-linguistically-gussy-up-that-sweet-oyyo-sculpture\">Tablet Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tablet Magazine has the story: Deborah Kass, a modern artist whose works often produce their meanings by re-imagining the style of Andy Warhol, for one, (also\u00a0Gertrude Stein and Jackson Pollack) has created a huge, yellow, sculpture that reads \u201cOY\u201d when looking from Brooklyn into Manhattan, and \u201cOY\u201d when doing the opposite. 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