Michelle Grabner
The Thing Quarterly, Issue 27
San Francisco, USA: The Thing Quarterly, 2015
23 x 23 x23 cm., boxed
Edition of 1000
Ken Johnson closed his twenty-four line New York Times review of an exhibition by Chicago-based artist Michelle Grabner with this sentence:
"If the show were a satire of the artist as a comfortably middle-class tenured professor and soccer mom, it would be funny and possibly illuminating, but it’s not.”
The overt sexism ignited a firestorm of counter-reviews and letters to the editor. Grabner herself responded by posting a link to the review on Facebook, without comment.
“It was 300 words but it tells us a lot more about the world we live in than it does about Ken Johnson and Michelle Grabner,” she remarked later.
The following year she responded with this functional size five gingham soccer ball. The ball arrived to subscribers to The Thing Quarterly boxed, accompanied by a pamphlet containing a brief introduction, an interview with Grabner by editor Jonn Herschend, and a reproduction of Joe Fyfe's review of the NYT review in HyperAllergic.
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