About The Work
Paul McCarthy produced this print in 1997, when he conceived of and exhibited Santa Chocolate Shop, an installation and video, in the Whitney Biennial. For McCarthy, fabled characters—Santa Claus and his elves, for example—provide innocent material through which he explores the abject and perverted. His use of green, red, and brown here signals McCarthy’s dirtying of a beloved family holiday, and the green rump of an elf is indicative of the artist’s signature sexually skewed imagery.
About Paul McCarthy
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: How THE SKATEROOM founder stops kids wiping out
- Interviews & Features: INTERVIEW: Paul McCarthy: 'My work refers to my private, forgotten or repressed memories. I recognize them as existing, but I am not sure how they relate to me. Are they specifically my trauma, or someone else’s?'
- Interviews & Features: What Whitney Hubbs Thinks About in the Studio
- News & Events: Why Are Paul McCarthy and Shana Moulton Building an Observatory in the Middle of Wyoming?
- Art 101: The Artist as Critic: Mike Kelley on How He Shaped His Own Legacy
Lithograph
22.50 x 19.50 in
57.1 x 49.5 cm
Signed by the artist.
About The Work
Paul McCarthy produced this print in 1997, when he conceived of and exhibited Santa Chocolate Shop, an installation and video, in the Whitney Biennial. For McCarthy, fabled characters—Santa Claus and his elves, for example—provide innocent material through which he explores the abject and perverted. His use of green, red, and brown here signals McCarthy’s dirtying of a beloved family holiday, and the green rump of an elf is indicative of the artist’s signature sexually skewed imagery.
About Paul McCarthy
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: How THE SKATEROOM founder stops kids wiping out
- Interviews & Features: INTERVIEW: Paul McCarthy: 'My work refers to my private, forgotten or repressed memories. I recognize them as existing, but I am not sure how they relate to me. Are they specifically my trauma, or someone else’s?'
- Interviews & Features: What Whitney Hubbs Thinks About in the Studio
- News & Events: Why Are Paul McCarthy and Shana Moulton Building an Observatory in the Middle of Wyoming?
- Art 101: The Artist as Critic: Mike Kelley on How He Shaped His Own Legacy
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