Akin to Grecian gods and goddesses gloriously posing in their signature demeanors, John LaMacchia’s models from everyday life rise on clean-cut pedestals, looking into the abyss.

In his Statues series, LaMacchia appropriates antiquity’s classical notion of the aesthetic and inserts it into the banality of contemporary consumerist culture. Stereotypes of the mundane gain preeminence and affirmation through the artist’s sarcastic delivery.

Traditionally associated with the perpetuation of victory and status, pedestals in this series elevate the “icons of today” in their trademark postures — not exhausted from wars or drudgery, but from strolling through the aisles or surfing the channels.

— Osman Can Yerebaken