Shake Your Booty

Copied Alan Goldfarb, Shake Your Booty, 1998, blown glass, 15 7⁄8 x 7 1⁄2 in. (40.4 x 19.0 cm.) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Renwick Acquisitions Fund, 1999.7

Artwork Details

Title
Shake Your Booty
Date
1998
Dimensions
15 7⁄8 x 7 1⁄2 in. (40.4 x 19.0 cm.) diam.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Renwick Acquisitions Fund
Mediums
Mediums Description
blown glass
Classifications
Subjects
  • Object — written matter
Object Number
1999.7

Artwork Description

Shake Your Booty is part of a group of pieces Alan Goldfarb calls “Archeopop,” in which the sandy surface treatment imitates the weathered appearance of ancient glass. Another method called snake-threading, has been applied with more than one hundred pieces of molten glass trailed over the unfinished form.