Artist

Paper Rad

Paper Rad consists of three American artists, Jessica Ciocci, her brother, Jacob Ciocci, and Benjamin Jones. Widely acclaimed in the States (where they are viewed as something of an artworld cult wonder) Paper Rad originated when the three met in Boston in 2000 at a screening of Jones’s films.  Since then, their practice has evolved to include installations, videos, performances, comics, website art, happenings, and, whatever strikes their collective fancy.

Critically, Paper Rad is often described as an art collective (which they dispute) that produces mixed media art and which draws upon and re-articulates their vision of popular culture.  Paper Rad have referred to science fiction fantasy, capitalist consumer culture, Eastern religions and New Age spiritualism, 70’s and 80’s cartoons such as Garfield and The Simpsons, and children’s toys and television programming such as My Little Pony and The Muppets, as being influences to their practice.  As a result, Paper Rad often produces an hallucinatory, colour-and-sound drenched technical free-fall of an experience for the unsuspecting.  Their work is intelligent, exuberant, disturbing, kitsch, confusing, humorous, knowing and, utterly, utterly of the moment.

• Paper Rad
• They're fake (2006)

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