Money Art List

This scene is anchored around an imitation of Carl Andre's "Lever" sculpture form factor. Here it is revised as a histogram made of compressed US currency bricks. This object is titled 'retirement' when shown stand-alone.
The advertisements and news from the paper for the date and locality of the installation are unfolded on the floor next to the money bricks.
Each wall is inscribed with a single word in graphite. Depending on your starting point, these read in sequence as
you/die/and/then,
and/then/you/die,
die/and/then/you, or
then/you/die/and.
One corner of the room is filled in with a triangular compression of fallen residue from the wall work. The opposite corner of the room contains a light blasting daylight-temperature light through a rectangular diffusion box.
The floor is painted with a whitewash made from smoothing and sanding the walls. Cleaning mops are used as brushes and displayed in the installation. This image of active and liquid form has dried, a ghostly suspension of creation or destruction suggestive of an ovum, omphalos, or enso (zen circle).

Study for revised dollar bill image. Doubling of "POW" as sound effect for comic book image of annihilation and as shorthand for war bondage.

Giant testicles filled with visible shredded currency hanging on the wall.

Wall sculpted with life-sized breast, as if it or the building were filled with a reservoir of currency residue. Breast has clear rubber baby bottle nipple with continuous stream of shredded US currency flowing into enamel bowl on floor beneath. Can be reproduced on any wall.

Printed currency with ink erased from paper using rubber eraser.
It is displayed with the eraser that was used and the bits of rubber infused with green ink from the process.

Queen-sized, button tufted, clear vinyl bed containing shredded US currency. The weight of this currency stuffing is equal to the average weight of $200,000 according to regulatory standards set by the U.S. Treasury for currency destruction and residue reuse.
Accompanied with and aluminum foil wrapped wall box with quote by Andy Warhol, "I like the idea of money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall." Signed Andy Warhol.
I constructed this cursive script and signature from early Warhol advertisements. Ostensibly, Warhol liked his mother’s handwriting and used it in his early commercial illustration and for his signature.

For awhile I was doing a warmup upon arrival in the studio. It consisted of decorating a plaster cast made from the packaging from a toy gun. This one I simply covered with shredded paper currency.