From the just-when-you-think-you’ve-seen-it-all file comes news that New York-based artist Graham Parker has a show of works made out of e-mail spam in Baltimore’s C. Grimaldis Gallery.
“Parker constructs elegant works on paper, installations and other objects out of the seemingly meaningless fragments of text that turn up in spam e-mails,” writes Baltimore Sun art critic Glenn McNatt. “His prints, for example, are precisely ordered geometric constructions whose forms are lettered in tiny, 4-point type, the smallest size legally recognized by the courts.”
Parker also creates newspapers out of the spam he receives.
He reportedly likes to have the broadsheets printed the night before his shows open so visitors to the gallery will recognize the messages as e-mails they already have read on their own computers.
Great, now we can get dressed up, get in our cars, and drive to an art gallery to rub elbows with a bunch of insufferable snobs and see the all crap that we already get free on our computers at home.
Thanks, Graham. What’s next, pop-up collages?
