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Guy Overfelt  San Francisco, CA


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Guy Overfelt’s work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in Warhol Revisited, De Young Museum + Off Space, Oakland, CA; Burning Rubber with the St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Highway to Hell with Garage Biennial, San Francisco, CA. Overfelt’s work has also been featured in the traveling exhibition Cantocore: FOB at the Ping Pong Space, Guangzhou 2008 Triennial, China. Overfelt’s work has been reviewed by Roberta Smith, Ken Johnson and Grace Glueck in The New York Times; Jerry Saltz in Time Out: New York; Ken Baker in The San Francisco Chronicle; David Hunt for Index magazine. Overfelt has an MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and has received the The Chancey McKeever Award, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Artadia Grant, New York; a finalist for Creative Capital Foundation Project Grant, New York, and nominations for the Whitney Biennial, New York; ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas; and the SECA AWARD, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.


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10 of 12 reactions displayed


"Overfelt has documented slackerculture , it's origins his practice and explitation of the art to its end: an inflatable TRANS-AM which could've been my childhood play toy."

"OH wow this is so rad I can like totally not believe it. Fully !!!!"

"It's brilliant! and I love that it can be deflated ;)Amazing work. I'm an instant fan!"

"Awesome !..!"

"It's brilliant! I love that this car that was, at one time, such an ego mobile can be deflated. It's just Awesome! I'm an instant fan!"

"just read is the artist's website that it's an inflatable smokey and the bandit trans am! hahaha. awesome."

"Is it like an inflatable trans am?"

"it's an inflatable sculpture. that's brillant. I love the green YMCA type floor."

"Is it a sculpture, painting, or did he just do artwork on a real car? I don't really love it."

"how much do you have to like cars to make a sculpture of one??"


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