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The Bruce High Quality Foundation
"Self Portrait" by Bruce High Quality Foundation Pop Art Print Edition

2014

About the Item

The Bruce High Quality Foundation "Self Portrait (Sometimes That Just Happens)" 18" x 14" Signed edition of 50 (Signed on Certificate) 2014 What is a self-portrait of an anonymous artist? The Bruce High Quality Foundation, known for their humorous and irreverent projects and performances that often take a subversive and critical stance towards the current market’s seemingly insatiable appetite for hyped new artists, answers this question ad nauseum by insinuating the image cum icon of their namesake, Bruce High Quality, into thousands of images from popular culture and art history. Simultaneously a face and a mask, an insertion into history and a blotting out, the Foundation uses the problematic of its own existence to metonymically reveal the tenuous footholds of truth, history, and humanity. “Self Portrait (Sometimes That Just Happens)” sees Bruce High Quality as a young pop idol, repurposing Michael Jordan’s iconic #23 Bulls jersey, a symbol of aspirant African American masculinity, as one of exuberant tween sexuality. Sometimes That Just Happens is in the spirit of Warhol while also looking in a way at Duchamp's 1919 L.H.O.O.Q in it's defacing of a print of Mona Lisa. The BHQF was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, as well as other group exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in Queens, Acquavella Gallery in New York, and Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.
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