Jennifer Pastor: The Perfect Ride

Pastor, Jennifer and Jan Tumlir, Debra Singer

ISBN 10: 0874271436 / ISBN 13: 9780874271430

Published by Whitney Museum, 2004

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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 52 pages; as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jennifer Pastor: The Perfect Ride
• Publisher: Whitney Museum
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874271436
• ISBN 13: 9780874271430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Since 1945

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Synopsis

Jennifer Pastor (b. 1966) reinterprets common yet curiously unexpected subjects in her sculpture and drawings, which reflect influences as varied as Claes Oldenburg and pop cultural phenomena. Accompanying an exhibition at the Whitney Museum, this book explores Pastor's installation The Perfect Ride, which comprises a large sculpture inspired by the Hoover Dam; a sculptural rendering of the human ear; and a line-drawn animation of a cowboy on a bucking bull.

Pastor's style lies somewhere between kitsch and Pop art, but without the ironic intention. The products of meticulous research and painstaking craftsmanship, her pieces evoke an improbable sense of enchantment, relating both to the physical world and the surreal world of dreams. Jennifer Pastor: The Perfect Ride sheds new light on the work of this intriguing young artist. AUTHOR BIO: Jan Tumlir is an independent curator and writer for Art Forum, Artweek, Art Issues, LA Weekly, and Frieze, among other publications. Debra Singer, the curator of the exhibition, is executive director and chief curator of the Kitchen in New York, and a founding editor of Cabinet magazine.