Lot 36
Tony Tasset
Comiskey Pyre
c-print
value $900-$1,000
17 1/2 x 20"
courtesy of anonymous donor

Since the mid-1980s, Chicago-based artist Tony Tasset has created works that conflate art, contemporary culture, and his own everyday experiences. He often turns his investigations inward, using his personal life as a self-effacing foil to address cultural cliches, social stereotypes, and internal conflicts, as well as how media changes the way we see ourselves. Tasset first gained recognition for his clever and ironic works commenting on the commodification of art, while paying homage to its conceptual and iconographic influence. His own world becomes the subject of his examination into the importance of the common place. Tasset strategically packages and glamorizes the average guy-next-door into the anti-hero who is degraded or elevated in various exaggerated predicaments. (from Feigen Contemporary, New York)