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Art Utopia
Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber have it made — and so do their assistants
Marnie Weber
Jim Shaw, Nose sculpture wall sconce (Latino) (2007) (Photo courtesy artist and Metro Pictures)
“Now it’s like I tell people what I do, and even to people who work in production, it’s kind of a crazy job, being like, yeah, I’m working on vagina bricks all day.” He holds up an example of what he means: a cast resin brick distinguished by a mound of fleshlike folds at one end — one of the dream objects. Shaw wants 15 or 20 by the opening of the Metro Pictures show, and each takes 24 hours in the mold, so Salamone will be working up to the wire. “But it’s funny,” he says, returning the brick to its pile. “It just becomes like a regular job.”
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