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Friday, March 11, 2005
Scott Fife's celebrity heads put a new face on cardboard
Andy Warhol, twice: Scott Fife made him in duplicate to honor Warhol's deadpan repetitiveness, and made him by hand because, said Fife, when he looked at the original Campbell Soup boxes he was startled to realize they were all hand painted.
Seattle's Fife can make anything out of cardboard: clocks, rugs, big puppies, prom dresses, easy chairs and high-stepping shoes, but lately he's been concentrating on private versions of celebrity heads.
Besides two Andys, there's a Popeye with his bulging cheeks and corncob pipe, a Frida Kahlo and a fleshly version of the master of lean buildings, Mies van der Rohe, resting on his side. How the fleshly have fallen. Fife finds van der Rohe late in life with his hair thinning and the bags under his eyes drooping toward his large nose.
Making flesh from paper board isn't a task that engages many. Fife not only does it well, he makes it matter. His heads create a need where none previously existed, and then, with great aplomb, they fill it.
Through March 26 at Platform Gallery, 114 Third Ave. S. Thursdays-Saturdays, 11a.m.- 5:30 p.m.
-- Regina Hackett
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