Jeffrey Vallance
Jeffrey Vallance, Blinky Carcass: Relic and Milagros (Performance Relic), 2007
Mixed media, 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 x 34 in. (19.7 x 29.2 x 1.9 cm)
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Jeffrey Vallance, Artwork from "Off the Street" Show, 1985
Photograph, 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
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Jeffrey Vallance, X-rayed Portraits of President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale, Autographed), 1978
Acrylic on board, cloth, ribbon, iron powder, & autographs with X-ray display, 16 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (41.9 x 52.1 x 3.8 cm)
"In 1978, I sent a painted double-portrait to President Carter and Vice President Mondale at the White House to have them autograph it. I had sent drawings to previous presidents to autograph; I knew I could accomplish that, so this time I wanted to up the ante. I decided to send a painting instead of a drawing, and I considered the likelihood that, as a three-dimensional object, a framed painting would have to be x-rayed to make sure it wasn't a bomb. So, I put in something for the x-ray technicians to look at. In a concealed compartment within the artwork, I made a looser painting of Jimmy Carter, painted in acrylic mixed with metalic powder. When the artwork is x-rayed, the secret portrait is revealed. I took it through the x-ray device at LAX and clearly saw Jimmy's smiling face. If I tried this again with our current president, I am sure that I would receive a knock on the door from the folks at Homeland Security." -Jeffrey Vallance
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Jeffrey Vallance, Relic Collection, 2008
Mixed media, 13 1/4 x 9 x 3 3/4 in. (33.7 x 22.9 x 9.5 cm)
Presented in a gold-and-white standing cartouche reliquary, this relic collection includes an assortment of holy medals, milagros, ex indumentis relics (third-class relic cloths), particle from the 9/11 Twin Towers terrorist attack, wood particle from Helena Elizabethkyrkan Church in Umea, particle from the Stockholm Cathedral, grain of sand from the grave of my friend artist Carols Almaraz in Hawaii, small round stone from the LBJ Ranch, metal BB from the Portland backyard, kernel of corn from the Blinky Shrine, soil from the Roman catacombs, Tibetan Buddhist relic, Soviet satellite Lunik 3 badge (1959), plastic gun from gumball machine, cameo from Vienna, tintype of unknown man, "Craxi" Italian political badge, bits of excavated backyard plastic objects, and a paint blob from my studio floor in Canoga Park (1991).
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Jeffrey Vallance, Spirit Photo: Marcel Duchamp, 2012
Archival digital photographic print on cotton rag paper, 52 x 42 in. (132.1 x 106.7 cm)
As he did in life, Duchamp’s spirit uses many puns to elucidate his concepts, but it is eerie to hear them in a trance-induced monotone female voice. Near the end of the séance, Duchamp fumbles with his wrists, as if searching for his cuff links. “They are lost,” he says, and he weeps; the psychic connection is broken, and the medium laughs nervously. (Could this be his deadpan humor again, referring to a London-based luxury menswear retailer that sells Duchamp™ brand mother-of-pearl cuff links?)
“But few have the ability to have a frame of reference for the beauty and the spirituality that is available once you transcend. It is like trying to describe the mechanics of flight to a squirrel.” —Spirit of Marcel Duchamp
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