left:
Underhill [Casco Bay; ME] V/V –
cutout rotten tennisball
2003 2'' x 2'' x 2'' 5x5x5cm
bottom middle:
deathbed drawing [Bob Ross] –
pencil, eraser, cleaning detergent
2003 6 1/2'' x 6 7/8'' 16.5×17.5cm

Kasper Kovitz crafts objects in ways that at first glance seem calculated to undermine both our notion of what an artwork is supposed to be as well as why the landscape, or whatever other icon he may employ, is worth taking seriously. It would be easy enough to focus on the novel aspects of the objects themselves as humorous parodies of more traditional kinds of art. Curiously, the apparent irony is only a shroud of the much more disturbing question as to the relevance of the culture that imbues the icons with meaning and perpetuates the art-making practices that have brought them into existence. –
Stephen Fleming, director RAIR Program, 2005

right top to bottom:
Rocky Mountain Log Home –
pine sap on paper
2003 30'' x 22 1/4'' 76×56.5cm
Hogar [Roswell; NM] –
Black Cat Triple Fast Action House
Blessing on paper
2004 44'' x 33'' 112x84cm
How we Live in this World and
what Chance we Shall have in
the next we know Not –
plaster weld on paper
2004 25 1/2'' x 18 3/4'' 65x48cm