2021 "Big Hug ((H))" Edie Nadelhaft Pop Art Glass Pill Sculpture

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"Big Hug" ((H)) - Limited edition purple glass pill sculpture by Edie Nadelhaft. Edition of 9.

Signed and numbered on … more "Big Hug" ((H)) - Limited edition purple glass pill sculpture by Edie Nadelhaft. Edition of 9.

Signed and numbered on the back by the artist.

The piece is equipped with a D-ring on the back for easy hanging.

"Big Hug" is part of Edie Nadelhaft's "Better Living Thru Chemistry: Luv is the Drug" sculpture series consisting of candy-colored glass and mixed media capsule-shaped objects. Each pill is festooned with text messages, social media iconography and the language of pop psychology. Inspired in equal parts by the ubiquitous presence of social media in contemporary culture and the simultaneous rise of direct - to - consumer pharmaceutical marketing. The work pokes fun at the alternately amusing and depressing correlations between the two phenomena as both are enlisted to oversimplify the human condition and expedite contentment through a familiar cocktail of instant gratification and seductive packaging.

Edie Nadelhaft is a New York-based painter and mixed media artist whose work has been widely exhibited at museums, art fairs and galleries. She studied painting and art history at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and S.U.N.Y. Purchase. She received her BFA with Honors from The Massachusetts College of Art & Design. less