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Guy Overfelt // Free Bird: The Never Ending Joy Ride, 1998-2014Post an Event »
Ever Gold Gallery
September 5 - October 4, 2014Info
441 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Google Map »
Ever Gold Gallery is proud to present Guy Overfelt's ongoing conceptual project Free Bird: The Never Ending Joy Ride, 1998-2014.
The car is a road and not an object. It is a vector, connector, and route within systems of relations that make meaning, identity, and political economy. It is an attachment: a life-making prosthetic.
Artist Guy Overfelt understands its rich depth well. His work is about the plenum of the surface: it plays off the car’s profundity as it roves around in plain sight. The car is the wellspring of American life, a motivator of its urbanism, shaper and de-shaper of its economy, bearer of citizen identity by way of the driver’s license, inflamer of petrol-driven combat, and an equal-opportunity phallus. From within this matrix, Overfelt makes conceptual car art—art that unfolds around the car as a mediator of the world. He uses the car self-reflexively, to point back at itself and at the human-as-machine, catalyzing a litany of questions on bio-life, ecology, oil, war, and, that once sacred rubric, manhood.