Jonathan Schipper

(born 1973-)

American

Jonathan Schipper's powerful event-based artwork 'The Slow and Inevitable Death of American Muscle' is a slow-motion car crash involving iconic 1970s muscle cars. The machinery has been used in multiple reincarnations, which have occurred over varying periods of time. This piece captures so much of our current concerns regarding cars, their emissions, and our environment. As the title suggests, it symbolizes the end of the American dependence on oil and our idolization of these gas-guzzling machines that we love from old movies like Smokey and the Bandit, Rocky, and the Dukes of Hazard.