Increasing weirdness followed, including extra-large, intensely colored fungi and objects suggestive of gnarly Neolithic fetishes or disembodied eyeballs, but in the main, single forms, slightly surreal realism and worked surfaces prevailed.
Juan Boza's "Coronación de la Tierra (Crowning of the Earth)," from 1990, a year before the artist died in Brooklyn, also includes a bed of dirt on top of which are placed found objects suggestive of the Caribbean: hard candy (representing the sugar trade), little rum bottles, coconuts, cigars and an armature hung with colorful, shaped paintings.
The rest of the fountain is dotted with objects suggestive of body parts: a lumpy pink spine, a pale chunk of hairy leg, muddy egg-shaped masses.
These objects are intriguingly suggestive but yet retain an ambiguity.
For several years, Kruger crocheted, sewed and painted bright-hued and erotically suggestive objects, some of which were included by curator Marsha Tucker in the 1973 Whitney Biennial.
Paramount chief Bob Evans hated it, rejecting the lyric as too much of a downer; incredibly, he also felt it was too sexually suggestive, objecting to the words "Jenny came".
A prominent example is "Still Life with Large Shell," Max Beckmann's droll, Matisse-inspired portrait of his wife, who has to compete for attention with the ever-so-suggestive object that looms in the foreground.
But Product is staid to a point: one version comes with a suggestive silicon object, just part of Sophie's penchant for manmade materials and attention.
This haunting object has a strangely suggestive series of twin pods connected by arching tubes around the outside of its waist-high rim.
No longer representationally suggestive of objects, these new prints -- dynamic frame-filling skeins and sprawling webbed networks -- were "really about depicting a kind of event space," he says.
