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of plastic, as objects cycle from absurd commodity to meaningless thing to excessive substance." In "Green Piece," Boetzkes explains that "green politics is made explicit, as green is shown in the proliferation of objects needed to tend suburban lawns – fly swatters, lawn furniture, garden hoses, yard tools, AstroTurf, bug spray – alongside plastic cucumbers and artificial plants."
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program of New York City's
Metropolitan Transportation Authority to create a permanent laminated glass display for the Fort Hamilton Parkway station, on the elevated portion of the West End (D train) line. Munson's artwork “Gardens of Fort Hamilton Parkway Station” consists of symmetrical arrangements of flowers, florets, petals and weeds from her own garden.
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Munson’s public works include “Pink
Projects” with the Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY (2019); “Art in the Terminal,” the Albany International Airport, Albany, NY; MTA Arts for Transit, Bryant Park MTA Station, New York, NY. Munson was commissioned in 2012 by the Arts and Design
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Other major works include “Bound Angel”, first exhibited in a solo show at P·P·O·W in 2022, a large-scale installation of a table adorned with mostly white figurines depicting angels, madonnas and “perfect” women, bound with ropes and string. John
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Projects" and another work, "Green Piece", as considering "the cultural significance of commodities through their accumulation and redistribution." She goes on to explain that in her view, Munson's work "can be taken as a protracted meditation on the materiality
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Munson first achieved notoriety with her work “Pink
Project: Table” in the "Bad Girls" show at the New Museum, New York, in 1994, consisting of thousands of pink plastic found objects spread out on a table. A similar sculpture consisting of accumulations of pink objects encased in glass vitrines
146:, Ghent, NY; and Memento Mori, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY. In 2023, her work was included in Rituals of Devotion at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Portia Munson: The Pink Bedroom was exhibited at the Museum of Sex, New York, NY in 2023.
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