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uberdionysus

Troy Swain's Art Show from 2001

Jan 11, 2007 15:07

Troy Swain's Art Show, 2001

In 2001, I had a solo show at the Southfirst Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After my show opened, 2001 turned into a horrible, horrible year. ¹I made action figures of six of my friends, and continued making action figures of post-Kantian philosophers. The philosophers were called "Modern Man Action Figures." Each ( Read more... )

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Neat. delphizyx January 11 2007, 20:37:11 UTC

Did you whittle these all by yourself, or were they factory produced? I know there's something about working with MacFarlane on your frontpage... Bet all your friends want you to turn them into action figures now.

Thanks. uberdionysus January 11 2007, 20:44:24 UTC

Oh, I guess I should clear that up. I have to re-edit.

I made them out of Sculpey™ using dental tools. Then I made rubber molds and took hard wax casts. I added clothes and finshing details and then took silicon molds of each of the pieces. Finally, I cast the whole thing in a two-part plastic (Smooth-on brand, but I forget which plastic).

claudelemonde January 11 2007, 21:02:38 UTC

your commitment to craft is amazing and excellent. bravo.

claudelemonde January 11 2007, 21:03:12 UTC

--which is NOT AT ALL to make some kind of "not art" statement, which they are, duh; just they are rendered very beautifully.

uberdionysus January 11 2007, 21:05:59 UTC

When I was seriously making art, craft was uniformly ignored. Being of a contrary nature, I went the opposite direction. In retrospect, despite my commitment to craft, I was still making conceptual art, which is what I claimed to NOT be making.

pattersonphoto January 11 2007, 21:08:50 UTC

bad ass

uberdionysus January 11 2007, 22:01:30 UTC

Thanks!

gfonk January 11 2007, 21:15:17 UTC

So cool. I've taken a couple years off from creating (fine) art too. I am not the type to pour all of my emotions out creatively, but I've got some ideas swirling around I might get back to soon. Do you think you'll get back into it eventually?

uberdionysus January 11 2007, 22:02:26 UTC

I'm working on stuff now, but it's very slow. I have two major projects I want to work on, and they're both going to take a year plus.

I consider my comic art, but we all know the status of that.

mybillee January 11 2007, 21:30:10 UTC

Awesome, where are the others and are they available?

uberdionysus January 11 2007, 22:12:28 UTC

I have a bunch in storage. I'm posting pics of the philosopher action figures tomorrow. Most of those are gone, but I still have a few in storage. They're available, but they're all pretty roughed up, since they haven't seen daylight in two years.

mybillee January 11 2007, 22:23:45 UTC

So, um, hook it up.

I'm serious...I'll purchase them, who cares if they're banged up a bit....

What philosopher's?

I think they would fit in perfectly in our little abode

uberdionysus January 12 2007, 00:36:21 UTC

Cool. I'll post the others tomorrow. See what you think of them. If you want, you can come over some time.