Exclusively Postmodern

I feel a little bit trigger-happy with the postmodern label, but it seems as though all of these artists fit under that category.

Some of Do-Ho Suh's pieces seem to fit best in the postmodern movement, because he is essentially making replicas of pre-existing places in cloth, which seems to prove the post-modern theory that nothing is original.  His work questions reality by presenting us with a ghostly facsimile of it.

Andrea Zittel's line of art products is undoubtedly postmodern, because of its heavy emphasis on consumerism.  In fact, I found her work incongruous with her statements in the interview.  She talked about how people believe that owning more will free them, but that it is those very possessions that become "a larger and larger web of entrapment." I found this statement hypocritical, as the article mentions that she owns three homes, not to mention that her art comes in the form of "furniture, clothes, food, management units, living structures, even administrative services" that can actually be consumed. Imagine my relief when D.K. Row confronted her about this inconsistency, pointing out, "Aren't you manufacturing layers of consumption for yourself?" Needless to say, she avoided answering the question fully.  She could have so easily stated that her work was a critique of that vicious cycle, but she missed the chance.

Tim Hawkinson's images remind me of the dada collages.  He must fall under the postmodern heading because of his hodgepodge approach to image-making.

Layla Ali's comics are postmodern as well, just as Barry McGee's graffiti was.  Both of their mediums are considered low art and many think that their brand of art has no place in a gallery.  Consider the chain of events: modern artists made original work, which in turn was appropriated for advertising, which the postmodernists used in their work.  This translation of high art into low art back into high art is true of comic book artists as well.