by Benjamin Sutton, via artinfo.com
Home Alone, the walk-in closet-sized Franklin Street gallery whose name was inspired by the record-setting copy of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — which goes on view today at MoMA — and its likeness to Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone,” is currently host to a comic installation by the irreverent and resurgent art star Mark Flood.
Titled “Yes Yes Yawn” — an apparent pun on the oft-repeated hip-hop phrase “yes yes y’all” — Flood’s installation consists of a large work on paper taking up the miniature gallery’s entire back wall with the words “YES, YES, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, YAWN” in dark black type on a slightly lighter black backdrop. The playful installation seems a fitting follow-up to similarly funny pieces by Paul McCarthy and Spencer Sweeney.
Earlier this year Flood told ARTINFO that the goal of his exhibition at Zach Feuer, “ARTSTAR,” was to take “a humorous look at the plight of the contemporary artist,” and his latest show seems to continue in the same vein.