
Sticks and Stones will Break your Bones, but Words will Never Hurt Me, Don Porcella, pipe cleaner and mixed media, signed and numbered edition of 5 for each piece in the series, $500 USD + shipping.

NOWhere Limited Contemporary Art is pleased to present a series of 6 hand-made, limited edition pieces by Don Porcella.
Titled Sticks and Stones will Break your Bones, but Words will Never Hurt Me, this series features a variety of action figures Porcella weaves from pipe cleaner and packages in poly-bags with header cards (labels) he draws. Each of the figures offered through NOWhere Limited is limited to an edition of 5, hand-crafted and numbered by the artist.
Each piece in the Sticks and Stones… series “depicts a name that people call other people,” says Porcella. “The action figures and the labels work together to show just how silly names can be.”
Porcella’s action figure series are included in many prominent art collections, like those of Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jeffrey Deitch, Mary Boone, Eli Broad and Morgan Spurlock. Add one or more to your collection by ordering: here, while supplies last.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
From the artist’s web site: “Inspired by nature, consumer culture, and science fiction, Don Porcella’s work is highly-reflective of his upbringing; his artist mother and physician father made almost everything by hand, which can be seen in his art that celebrates craft, the hand-made, and folk and outsider art. Porcella’s interest in nature and human evolution came from exploring the Sierra Nevada wilderness. Now living and working in NYC, Porcella seems to be recalling his earlier experiences in an animalistic call of the wild. By creating paintings, sculpture, drawings and installations from materials such as handmade wax and woven pipe cleaners, Porcella seeks to transform these low-brow materials and elevate them to a high art context, while simultaneously laughing at the human condition and presenting a unique world that is shamelessly awkward and unabashedly comical. Porcella’s work often references art historical movements, America’s rampant consumerism, and alien conspiracy theories, which allows the subjective and strange to penetrate humorous representations of a wildly imaginative reality.”
Born and raised in Modesto, California, Porcella’s artwork has been exhibited at galleries in New York City and around the globe, and has been reviewed in such publications as the New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and the Village Voice. He has a BA in Psychology from the University of California at San Diego, a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. Porcella has received grants from the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, the Brooklyn Arts Council, and an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park.
He is currently an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York through mid-April 2012. A book of “100 Artist Interviews by Don Porcella” will be published in Fall 2012 by Brooklyn Artists Label and a book about his art is being planned for release in 2013. Look for Porcella’s artwork in several group exhibitions later this year and next, and an upcoming solo show in New York.
For more about the artist, please visit: http://DonPorcella.com
INFO AT A GLANCE:
Series Title: Sticks and Stones will Break your Bones, but Words will Never Hurt Me
Artist: Don Porcella
Medium: Pipe cleaner and mixed media
Limited numbered edition: 5
Price: $500 USD + shipping
Available exclusively online at: NOWhereLimited.com