Sam Durant

Sam Durant: Reflected Upside Down and Backwords,1999

(Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA , Oct13, 2002 - Febr9, 2003)
"Sam Durant is an artist interested in weaving together ideas of art history, pop culture, and social protest to build the vocabulary of his art. Recently featured in Vitamin D, a new survey of drawings published by Phaidon Books, Durant quotes Lenny Bruce, saying, "Humor is pain plus time" to describe the fundamentals of his work. Based in L.A., Durant was recently review in Artforum for work that was featured in his L.A. gallery, Blum & Poe.” November 22, 2006"