American Camouflage 7, 2024
Fast food, corn, rubber gloves, cardboard packaging, plastic, epoxy resin, aluminum, acrylic, automotive paint, LED strips
76.2 x 114.3 x 6 cm
30 x 45 x 2 3/8 in
Josh Kline’s new series features compositions of contemporary life arranged in layered camouflage patterns. Cast in resin, Kline meticulously assembles artifacts of consumer culture and its wasteful packaging into colorful "paintings." Items such as cigarettes, junk food, pills, store packaging, as well as pages torn from influential American business literature all appear in this series. While these items and spending habits originate in America, this unhealthy lifestyle is often exported abroad with negative impacts. This unique work, American Camouflage 7, 2024, is illuminated from within. The different remains in this work include fast food, corn, rubber gloves, cardboard packaging, that have been preserved through dehydration and then suspended in layers of resin.