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William Shipman
Nixon’s The One
Wheelchair, Neon tube, Argon mercury tube, flag, fiberglass, bumpersticker
William Shipman served in the US military during the Vietnam War. His evocative sculptural forms consist of neon tubing draped in fiberglass. The figures bear a relationship to the human form, but also serve as a pupae of something mysterious and possibly menacing, yet to be born. A tattered flag trails behind a 1970s era wheelchair sporting a “Nixon's the one” sticker. Angular neon tubes poke out from the seat of the chair, suggesting and negating a human form hooded in plexiglass.