RICHARD GLAZER DANAY
A Saint For Pink Bisons
Date: 2000
Dimensions: 79.5” x 12” x 4.5”
Medium: Enamel and mixed media on wood
Condition: Overall very good, some craquelure, staining to bison sculptural element
Provenance:
– Artist
– Trotta-Bono Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
In this vertically divided mixed-media work, Richard Glazer Danay stages a collision of devotion, spectacle and Pop absurdity. A central retablo anchors the composition, while the surrounding imagery fractures into two contrasting realms. Below, floating pink bison drift across a gray field in varied orientations – weightless, playful, and destabilized – culminating in a toy pink bison assemblage at the base.
Above, the palette darkens. Black, glitter-laden surfaces hold bison skulls suspended in multiple orientations, their reflective grit oscillating between reverence and critique. As in much of Glazer Danay’s practice, the work blends humor with unease, folding sacred reference into mass-produced iconography. The result is a restless tableau that questions how symbols migrate, lose gravity, and are remade – where devotion, commodity, and cultural memory occupy the same uneasy frame.