Pink Project
“Pink Project; Table,” New Museum, 30" x 8' x 14', 1994		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Table” (detail), 1994		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Table” (detail), 1994		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Table,” ARS, Finland, 30" x 8' x 14', 1995		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Table” (detail), 1995		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Vitrines,” Yoshii Gallery, 68"x 32"x 12.5", 1995		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Vitrine” (detail), 1995		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Bedroom,”
Art Awareness,
10'x 14'x 8', 1996-9		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Room” (detail), Silverstein Gallery,
size variable, 1997		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Mound,” SUNY Ulster, approx 6'x 12', 2006

photo Suzy Jeffers

Pink Project
“Pink Project; Contained” (detail), Hemphill Gallery, size variable, 2007		Pink Project
“Pink Project; Table,” PPOW Gallery, 30" x 8' x 14', 2010

photo Andy Wainwright

Pink Project
"Pink Project; Table" (detail), 2010		Pink Project
"Pink Project; Bedroom," MASS MoCA, 8' x 16' x 8', 2011

photo Andy Wainwright

Pink Project
"Pink Project; Bedroom" (detail), 2011		Pink Project
"Pink Project; Bedroom" (detail),
2011

photo Andy Wainwright

Pink Project
"Pink Project; Bedroom" (detail), 2011

Artist Statement

The “Pink Projects” are an exploration of the color pink, a culturally loaded color that has been projected onto girls and women. The “Pink Projects” are made up of thousands of inexpensive products that are either produced or packaged in the color pink. These pink plastic objects --Fake nails, tampon applicators, hair clips, makeup, cleaning products, mirrors, baby pacifiers -- seem to be trying to imitate and perfect the body, perfect nature.

In these installations, the discarded items assume new value and meaning, showing the marketing of femininity and how our culture infantalizes women.

References

“Nature Mort,” Catalog, 1994

Art In Review, NY Times, 1994

TENbyTEN Interview, 2000

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