Object Notes

Vigário Geral Jerked-Beef Ruin is a virtuosic simulation of a tile wall that upon closer inspection is bursting at the seams with flesh and guts.

Gary Hume is known for his colorful abstractions that draw from visual media and advertisements.

Wyatt Khan’s works exist somewhere between painting and sculpture. The artist arranges raw canvases of unusual but complementary shapes and sizes, and affixes them to each other to create the semblance of a single panel.

This exaggerated, monolithic door is oppressively real and heavy, but also feels imagined, as if pulled from a child’s fantasy. With thick wood, sealed windows, and perma­nently closed locks, it cartoonishly exemplifies everything one would expect to find in a medieval castle.

In February 2017, Gabriel Orozco opened a fully function­ing OXXO store in Mexico City’s kurimanzutto gallery. OXXO is the quintessential Mexican convenience store; it opened its first store in 1978 in Monterrey, and today has over 14,000 stores, the largest of its kind in Mexico.

All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins

Jordan Wolfson borrows from the language of the Internet, marketing, and technology to produce challenging and ultimately ambiguous narratives. Untitled is no exception, and the assemblage serves as a self-portrait.

The folding screen, or biombo, is a unique furniture form which developed as an adaptation of Japanese screens in colonial Mexico.

Displaying the dramatic dark blue head (kepala) in the center of this batik is possible because, when worn, the sarong retains its original tubular form.

Dense rows of geometric medallions containing abstract flower blossoms as seen from above are combined with banji motifs on the body (badan) of this batik.