Michele Provost: Selling Out

Publication documenting the work of the emerging artist whose primary focus is the relationship between art and consumer culture. The installation discussed here is comprised of action figures, trading cards and comic book covers as well as unauthorized reproductions of works of "high art" by artists from Bosch to Daumier, Kahlo to Cardiff and Warhol to General Idea. By drawing on contrary spheres - collectibles, advertising, the museum, toys, merchandising, and art - Provost belongs to an established lineage of artists whose direct address of commercial culture simultaneously declares and calls into question its perpetual advance.