Elyse understood something that the others didn’t.” “What happened with Elyse is she immediately went into it and twisted it back and kind of laughed with me, and there was a laughing moment. McCarthy said he would begin laughing maniacally. After freaking out a few hopefuls with lascivious questions about their boyfriends, Mr. McCarthy said he was struck by her ability to connect with his perverse portrayal of Ray. Standing in the gallery wearing a black mesh trucker hat, Mr. Poppers auditioned for Rebel Dabble Babble shortly after moving back home to pursue acting, following stints working as an art appraiser and a private investigator. “And having a little more agency.”Ī Los Angeles native, Ms. “I think part of the interest in doing this was subverting that history of the female nude and being the object,” said Ms. The life casts engage not only sculpture (from the ancient Greeks to John De Andrea and Duane Hanson), but iconic 2D works like Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du monde (1866), the famous obstetrician’s-eye view of a woman’s anatomy, and Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face) (1981). I’m amazed at this level where reality and the reality of art, where the border is almost imperceptible.” “To take the oldest art form-figurative sculpture, nude sculpture-and do something that’s so fresh … I’m just knocked out. Awake (2012-2013), the trio of seated sculptures, particularly impressive. “It’s a new level of figurative sculpture,” said Jeffrey Deitch, director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, in the gallery the day after the opening. The life casts, though, are the most viscerally affecting. McCarthy is ubiquitous in New York these days, with his enormous Snow White sculptures in the downtown space, a sizable bronze at the edge of the Hudson River at West 17th Street and his monumental Balloon Dog (2013), which towered over Frieze New York. Poppers, will open the day before at the Park Avenue Armory.) Mr. The piece, which co-stars James Franco and explores the rumored, quasi-incestuous relationships between Rebel Without a Cause director Nicholas Ray and his young cast, will open at Hauser & Wirth’s downtown location on June 20. Poppers met Paul McCarthy a couple years ago when she auditioned for the role of Natalie Wood in Rebel Dabble Babble (2012), a video by Mr.
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