Slog - Comments on The Marooned Art of Sonny Assu http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_marooned_art_of_sonny_assu In all the architectural and big-name chatter at the SAM opening, many interesting and more obscure artists were pushed aside, most of them dead or at the very least already established (the late John Covert and the very much alive Jo Baer, who was born in Seattle and educated at UW and who might make a good SAM survey considering her various turns, for example). But then there's the young Canadian artist Sonny Assu, whose work is marooned in a hallway off the Native American galleries. His cereal boxes are bitingly revamped to reflect the relationship between natives and the... Copyright 2008 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:15:43 -0800 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:39:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bellevue Ave unfortunately this could be mistaken for a photoshop phriday on somethingawful.com. does that mean its any less funny? no! does it mean it's great? maybe? does it mean im going to pay money to see the stuff? no!

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_marooned_art_of_sonny_assu#c737538 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_marooned_art_of_sonny_assu#c737538 Arts Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:50:25 -0800 Comment by Ries I have to say that when I stumbled on this piece, in a little hallway just off the purple palace of yard sale treasures, I was immediately cheered up.
Its a smart, ironic, funny, modern piece, that reminds you the world is not all gold leafed picture frames the size of billboards.

I did pay money to see it, and I am glad I did.

]]> Ries http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_marooned_art_of_sonny_assu#c737546 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_marooned_art_of_sonny_assu#c737546 Arts Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:57:33 -0800 Comment by Catman His series of cereal boxes was one of the best displays of modern art at the new SAM.

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