Bozo the Clown Runs for President, 1984 Photo: Larry Harmon Pictures CorporationKathryn Andrews
Run for President
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas [link]
Juxtaposing objects from popular film culture with political images, Kathryn Andrew’s large-scale sculptural installations wryly examine the relationship between media culture and political power. Lethal Weapon/Oval Office features one of the actual guns from the 1987 film hidden inside a large polished steel cylinder resembling a garbage can. Peering into the “peephole” viewers encounter the barrel of a gun pointed directly at their foreheads. The sculpture reflects the viewer placing them inside the oval office. The gun is the least lethal weapon, rather the self-aggrandizing fame and ego necessary to assume political office becomes the danger with potential global repercussions.
photos courtesy of the author
Oval Office during the Reagan Administration, The White House, 1981–89 Photo: Jack E. Boucher _ “Lethal Weapon,” 2012 Stainless steel, paint, and certified film prop
First Lady Nancy Reagan and Mr. T at the White House Christmas Party, 1983 Image © Bettmann/CORBIS — Gift Cart, 2011 Stainless steel and rented props
Colette Copeland