RICHARD GLAZER DANAY
A Home Where The Buffalo Can Roam
Date: 1984
Dimensions: 25” x 11” x 12.5”
Medium: Enamel, wood, plastic and mixed media
Condition: Overall very good
Provenance:
– Artist Collection
– Trotta-Bono, Los Angeles, CA
At the front, a gold-painted cowboy leans forward in charge, balancing a long blue-and-red polka dot projectile on his head. Each side panel shows a burning alien planet. On one side, a rabbit dressed as Alice in Wonderland shoots a cat; on the other, a baboon fires at a rhino. On the back, a pink buffalo emerges halfway from the box, stalked by a crouching toy “Indian” inside. Atop the work, a Nazi-like golden eagle towers over green pigs with gold dots as a kneeling woman offers praise. Raised near the spectacle of Coney Island, Glazer-Danay turns the title’s open-range promise into irony: here, the buffalo’s home is a satirical stage for conquest, greed, and the illusions of freedom.