Todd Ayoung - Artwork

"Freedom is a Constant Struggle" (after Angela Davis), 2020 Acrylic paint on metal electrical box. Public outdoor piece, Ithaca, NY

"A National Problem", 2018 Various formats, including postcard, poster and hanging print as
Part of exhibition, "Baneful Medicine, Cooper Union Library, NYC curated by Andrew Weinstein (catalogue).

"All that is solid melts into air", 2004, Viewer activated slide projector, acrylic bubbles, plastic objects and lights. 2.50 x 4.50 x 2.00 mt, Cali, Colombia

"Travel Poster Series" for exhibition ELSEWHERE, 2002 at Lafayette College Art Gallery, The Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA. Digital duratrans, lightboxes 61/4 x 63/4 x 4 inches each box.

Undead, 2009 at Spanien19c, Aarhus, Denmark.  thousands of plastic straws woven together in one strand, plastic magnifying glasses and plastic flies . Dimensions Variable.

"A Paradox on Citizenry and Creativity", 2014. Digital photomontage for 52 Weeks, online exhibition (http://gulflabor.org/2014/week-28-todd-ayoung-and-jelena-stojanovic-a-paradox-on-citizenry-and-creativity/) and published book: (The GULF: High Culture/Hard labor, OR Books, 2015) of artwork organized by collective GULF LABOR.

"The Abduction of Freedom-In-Equality", 2014. Digital photomontage for 52 Weeks, online exhibition (https://gulflabor.org/2014/the-abduction-of-freedom-in-equality-2014-contribution-from-todd-ayoung-and-jelena-stojanovic/) and published book: (The GULF: High Culture/Hard labor, OR Books, 2015) of artwork organized by collective GULF LABOR.

"Better Together", 2015. T-Shirt Design to go with Artwork for Ithaca Festival 2015

"Actuality and Laughter" (installation detail), 2012

Brown suitcase with stickers, wire cable, Plato's Republic sewn into a ball,

blue and red printed questions on card stock and book of Plato's collected writings.

11 x 5 x 3 feet

http://www.eidia.com/plato/

"From Animal Farm to Bikini Atoll", 1995, Digitally enlarged printout of party information for after the bombing of Hiroshmia. Sewn photocopies of George Orwell's Animal Farm into a life size bikini: The bikini was designed by Louis Reard, a French engineer, and named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the first peacetime atomic bomb test in July 1946. The belly button in this installation is an atomic bomb explosion.

"Beheaded/Between" (detail), 2005 at ZIM Project Space, Rotterdam, Holland. Digital duratrans, light box (6) and metal conduit. Each light box 34 x 23 x 8 cm

"Beheaded/Between" (detail), 2005 at ZIM Project Space, Rotterdam, Holland. Digital duratrans, light box and conduit

Performance prop for "Real Fictions: Performances and Readings" Brooklyn Museum, 2000 Wooden photograph stand, photocopies, yellow hair brushes and tape recorder looping calypso music. 60 X 18 X 12 inches

(left) "After after Rauschenberg", 2012

Encaustic print

11 X 17 inches

(center) "Mute", 1988, Acrylic and enamel paint and wooden box on canvas, 24 x 42 x 12 inches.

(right) "Disappearance" series", 1988 , Acrylic and enamel paint on canvas, 32 x 48 x 1 inches

"Faith and Shadows", 2011, NHLspace, Copenhagen, Denmark. Site specific Installation: Digitally printed text on paper to stand in as shadows on floor, white press type letters on storefront glass door and window. 3.3 x 4.6 meters

http://www.nlhspace.dk/2011/06/global-lokalitet-5-faith-and-shadows/

(left) VOID, 2008

Digital image, dimensions variable.

http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/comeout/subramaniam.php

(right) "Kill the chickens to spare the monkeys", 2011

Digital image, dimensions variable.

http://www.vsw.org/ai/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/AI-web-portfolio-ayoung.png

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"Only Laughter", 2012, The Big Sleep/Dobok at the 26th Nadezda Petrovic Memorial, Cacak, Serbia.

Face cut out of yellow sheetrock wall, gold, blue and while press type letters,

white pedestal with printed questions on white sheets of paper.

6.4 x 3.5 x 6.4 meters

ELSEWHERE, 2002 at Lafayette College Art Gallery, The Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA. Installation detail, sheetrock,wood, melted plastic, chipboard, photocopies, metal conduit, and viewer activated slide projectors, 102 x 264 x 462 inches overall.

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