Friday, January 31, 2014

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

At the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art there is Contemporary American Indian Art on the first floor. One of the pieces is an Everlast punching bag made by Jeffrey Gibson. Added onto the bag is a wool blanket, glass beads, steel studs, artificial sinew, tin jingles and chains. There's something super cool to me about the fact that Jeffrey Gibson took something that is usually just beat up and made it into a beautiful work of art that nobody wants to hit anymore.