Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koonsis an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth21 January 1955
CityYork, PA
CountryUnited States of America
build roads trying
This thing got jammed down our throats, ... To me it just didn't make any sense. Even to this day, we're trying to think about how we're going to build roads out there.
american-artist create open spoken trying viewers work
I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation.
art bigger dad future realize son thinking trying
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
trying use gestures
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
trying participation feels
I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
trying enjoy audience
I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.
creating trying use
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
artist trying levels
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
available city money next
I've also told Greenacres that I'll have other money available for the city next year,
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I think it would be great, ... Greenacres is one of the best cities in dealing with kids.
broken concerned ground ready water
We haven't even broken ground yet, and we're ready to sell, ... I'm concerned about the water resources.
great interact loved people sell time
From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.
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I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
almost bringing finished model work
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.