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    • Bossy Burger
      Performance, video, and installation at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
      1991
      BBQ turkey leg, television, stage set, bowls, cooking utensils, chair, counter, milk, flour, ketchup, mayonnaise, dolls, chef costume, rubber Alfred E. Neuman mask, and video
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London

      © Paul McCarthy

    • Bossy Burger
      Performance, video, and installation at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
      1991
      BBQ turkey leg, television, stage set, bowls, cooking utensils, chair, counter, milk, flour, ketchup, mayonnaise, dolls, chef costume, rubber Alfred E. Neuman mask, and video
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London

      © Paul McCarthy

    • Heidi, Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
      Performance, video, and installation at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
      1992
      Wood, paint, various wood objects and utensils, straw, latex rubber figures, clothing, stuffed goat, canvas, folding table, photographs, postcards, and collage
      Dimensions variable
      Collection Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

      Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London

      © Paul McCarthy

    • Pinocchio Pipenose Householddilemma
      Performance, video, and installation at Villa Arson, Nice, France
      1994
      Installation, video, and photographs
      Dimensions variable
      Collection Contemporary Art Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona

      Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London

      © Paul McCarthy

    • Pinocchio Pipenose Householddilemma
      Performance, video, and installation at Villa Arson, Nice, France
      1994
      Installation, video, and photographs
      Dimensions variable
      Collection Contemporary Art Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona

      Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London

      © Paul McCarthy

    • Painter
      Video tape, performance, and installation in Los Angeles with Brian Butler, Sabina Hornig, Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, and Barbara Smith
      1995
      Wood paneling, carpet, paint, furniture, canvas, kitchen utensils, over-sized paint tubes and brush, video projector, latex noses, and folding chairs
      Dimensions variable
      Collection of the Rubell Family, Miami, Florida

      Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London

      © Paul McCarthy

    • Mad House
      Installation view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
      1999/2008
      Steel, aluminum, electric cabinet, plywood, and chair
      138 × 168 × 168 inches

      Photo by Ron Amstutz

      Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London

      © Paul McCarthy

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