Mike Leavitt’s series of cardboard shoes for the ‘Don’t Stop Object Shopping’ exhibition at NYC’s Fuse Gallery.
Arrested Motion (AM): Can you tell us a little bit this body of work for your show at Fuse Gallery?Mike Leavitt (ML): The biggest set of work is the new cardboard shoes. These are aimed at examining consumerism and the current state of the economy. As luck would have it, most of my work over the past few years is very closely related… my “Art Army” hand-made action figures were originally conceived as a satire on the co-modification of art. My “ArtCard” trading cards of artists also germinated from this interest in easily-sold collectibles. Since pitting myself against the challenge of making a living with my art, often independent from the mainstream art market and commercial galleries, commercial viability is a theme threaded through my subject matter.
I have set up a new tumblr over at eco-centric to run in parallel with an essay I am writing on sustainability.
Meet me over there for cups of tea upon cardboard chairs in coats made from maple leaves.
