Isaac Pool

More, most, 2021. Repaired mirror ball, pin spotlight, Slatwall inset and hook, packaged costume headset, dimensions variable. 

Hit So Hard, 2020. Packaged pig costume accessory set, pepper spray, monkey's fist, 16x10x3" Daydream Interlude, 2021. Slatwall inset and hook, packaged keychains, 5x3x6" 

She's Bad, 2020. Embellished clothing hanger, embroidered shirt, 20x15x3" 

DESCRIPTION

Small found objects are installed unaltered by the artist on an un-pristine wall and a corner lit by disco ball. Referencing the slats and dinge of commercial spaces where one can purchase these for cheap, Pool queers histories of minimalism and suggests these object’s more sinister powers. Each asks the viewer to stare (the embroidered shirt, in fact, instructs as such)—and stare for a long time—to see under and through their novelty. 

BIO

Isaac Pool is an artist who makes performances, photographs, sculptures, videos, and texts. Pool images sites of embodiment and provisional glamours; he has held positions as a character actress, pet empath, and object choreographer. As a teenager, Isaac performed in Detroit nightclubs using video projections, trash costuming, and cheap audio software. Beginning in 2008, Pool performed as feminist anti-hero and celebutante Sally Johnson and retired the character with the 2013 film A Alternatives. He has performed and exhibited internationally with solo shows in New York, Detroit, and Brussels. His first full-length book of poems in print, Light Stain, is available from What Pipeline, Detroit. Alien She, an ebook dedicated to Mark Aguhar, is available from Klaus eBooks. Isaac has worked on programs and education initiatives with Artadia, Dia Art Foundation, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is currently the Artist Program Manager at Creative Capital.