Tony Tasset is renowned for his ability to encapsulate the zeitgeist by creating image-objects that instantly signify contemporary culture. Tasset’s Arrow Sculpture literally points to our social media-obsessed society’s incessant need to rate human experiences as good or bad. Am I trending or declining; is my life sharable or snore-worthy? Tasset’s Pop Conceptual logo of perceptual duality suggests everything simultaneously goes both ways. Our assessments of ups and downs (of the stock market, the art market, or life itself) are arbitrary, or at best premature, and what we like and dislike are often one and the same.

Artist Biography:
Tony Tasset’s work was featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial of American Art and is included in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and several other important institutions. Tasset has received the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award, among others. His large-scale sculptures dot the landscape of dozens of America’s beloved public spaces, including the Art Trail at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the lot of Sony Pictures Studios in California, and public plazas in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and many other cities. Tasset is an emeritus professor at University of Illinois- Chicago.