Welcome to the Funky Art Gallery!

Welcome to the Funky Art Gallery!

Here we display pieces that are made on, or with, nontraditional media. The gallery is located in the beautiful rolling hills of Yucaipa, Ca. The curator of the gallery is Sabrianna Kendall who has received her degree in Art History/Administrative Studies and wishes to expand people’s perceptions to art.

Eww, They're Using What?!

This week’s exhibition is titled Eww, They’re Using What?! A show that contains artworks made out of bodily wastes, parts, or fluids. This show features 10 different artists that use media that are either produced from the human or animal body. The form of media ranges from urine or feces to semen or menstrual blood. This exhibit displays the ever evolving forms of art and destroys the thought that art must be paint on a canvas.

Featured Artists:

Piero Manzoni

Andres Serrano

Martin von Ostrowski

Lani Beloso

Andy Warhol

Zhu Cheng

Allicia Mogavero

James Robert Ford

Nick Kushner

Tsai Shiou-ying

Piero Manzoni

                          Artist’s Shit

Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Shit, 1961. Human feces in a tin can. 4.8x6.5cm. 30 grams.

About Piero Manzoni:

Manzoni was an Italian artist whose work has been related to mass production and consumerism. His work eschews normal materials used in art; his work has ranged from using rabbit fur to human excrement. The use of fingerprints, blood, and breath was also featured in his experimental pieces.

About the Piece:

At the time the piece was created, Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production. In May 1961 he canned 90 tins sealed with his own feces inside. Each can was 30-grams and priced at the current value of gold ($1.12 a gram in 1960).

Each tin says (In English, French, Italian, and German): 

Artist's Shit
Contents 30 gr net
Freshly preserved
Produced and tinned
in May 1961

Andres Serrano

Piss Christ

Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987. Photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of urine. 5' 0" x 3' 4" (1.52 m x 1.02 m).

About Andres Serrano:

Serrano is an American artist who worked as an assistant art director at an advertising firm before creating his first works in 1983. Many of his pieces were made to receive angry reactions. His choice for his photography is large prints of about 20 by 30 inches (51 by 76 cm).

About the Piece:

The full title is Immersion (Piss Christ). This piece is one of a series of photographs that depict classical statuettes submerged in either milk, blood, or urine. The photograph is a 60x40 inch Cibachrome print. Serrano stated that “while this work is not intended to denounce religion, it alludes to a perceived commercializing or cheapening of Christian icons in contemporary culture.”