Sculptural installation by Johanna Poethig, Big Bang Bowling Pins (installation, "Glamorgeddon," SOMArts, Oakland, 2015). This image illustrates a key alternative strain in Johanna Poethig's gallery/performance art— her satirical paintings and sculpture, mock products, installations, games, video and sound, which sometimes take an excessive and feminist approach in critiquing American consumerism, glamour and constructions of identity, and capitalism, often through entire exhibitions. This installation was part of the exhibition "Glamorgeddon," and demonstrates Poethig's reconfiguring of common objects and products to comic and critical effect. Poethig's satirical sculpture, installations and paintings have been exhibited and commissioned by prominent institutions and recognized and discussed widely by prominent art publications and critics.

Artist Johanna Poethig. Copyright held by the artist.

Johanna Poethig

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key alternative strain in Johanna Poethig's gallery/performance art: her satirical paintings and sculpture, mock products, installations, games, video and sound, and exhibitions dating back to the 1980s, which sometimes take a mocking feminist approach to critiques of American consumerism and excess, glamour and patriarchal constructions of identity, and corporate capitalism, often through entire exhibitions as in this example, from the 2015 show "Glamorgeddon." Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand the tone, aesthetic and strategy—reworking common objects and products—of this major body of work, which differs from Poethig's other modes. Her satirical sculpture, installations paintings and other works, such as this one, were prominently exhibited and are discussed in the article and by major publications and critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Johanna Poethig, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.