Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Very excited to be showing Scott Hove’s latest body of work at this weeks Scope NYC fair. 

Known primarily for his taxidermy cake busts, Scott has taken a new direction this year with his work following the tragic recent events at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Here’s what Scott has to say about these new pieces:

“In American culture, a gun can serve not only as great equalizer of the powerful and powerless. Beyond the purposes of hunting and defense, having a gun can also serve as a surrogate identity of virility and empowerment. Assault weapons are the most rapidly evolving of these identity empowerment tools. They are fetish objects composed of high-capacity magazines, infrared scopes, flashlights, bayonets and laser sights, rendered in a sleek and angular matte black.

In this series of sculptures, I have given the hyper-masculinized aesthetic of the assault weapon a forced-feminization in the form of very pretty cake decoration. Each piece points out the ultimate fantasy of a violence and fear-based ethos.”