42. Packard Jennings

Terrorist Alert sign in Downtown Oakland. 2003.

"2nd Labor of Dick Cheney" 2004

"Ronald's Shoes on East Oakland telephone line" 2003

Packard Jennings works with popular images or well-known concepts and reappropriates them with a sarcastic, but dark humored twist. "2nd Labor of Dick Cheney" makes a reference to antiquity while making a jab at the ex-VP. Likewise, Jennings distaste for American policy shows through in his "Terrorist Alert Sign," which points out the absurdity in color coordinating terrorist threat level. "Ronald's Shoes" are strung over a telephone wire in front of a McDonald's; the shoes hung like that has vary connotations, but particularly drug or gang related (someone has died). His work is comical without being unsettling, which can be hard to grapple when make political or societal remarks.