Patricia Piccinini
TOLARNO GALLERIES
Patricia Piccinini’s recent exhibition “One Night Love” included a group of the furniture-sized, biomorphic fiberglass objects she calls Car Nuggets and five modular bas-relief wall panels made of plastic and embalmed in layers of glossy, quasi-holographic automotive paint. This year’s line, “Car Nuggets GL” (all works 2001), are almost interchangeable but are distinguished from each other by embossed linear designs and iridescent colors much like the variations offered by car manufacturers from model to model and further individualized by a range of familiar flamelike biker motifs. In the same