THE DIRTY ZIPPER (LOT 040406)
2006
rabbit skin glue, metal on linen and cotton, wood frame and panel support
31 1/2 x 27 1/4 inches

Formally beautiful and psychologically loaded, Donald Moffet’s objects that take the form of paintings draw on the power of signs, sexuality, and the subconscious. A potently direct Surrealist-like thing, The Dirty Zipper (Lot 040406), creates within its viewers a dynamic of curiosity – Is this a real zipper? What is behind it? May I unzip it? Do I want to? -- that can craftily, even subversively, prompt the attraction/repulsion reaction to unstated or unexamined desires as described in psychiatry. Donald Moffett’s work is the subject of a current mid-career survey exhibition organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (traveling to Skidmore College and the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh), and is included in numerous public collections, among them UCLA Hammer Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

estimated retail value:  $30,000

opening bid:  $20,000

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