Jeff Koons, “New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker” (1981)

“When I was living in the East Village in the early ’80s and first saw Koons’s hybrid of art and marketing, I began to see the possibilities for me to become an artist. I thought, ‘I can do that, and I can do it for all the right reasons.’ I feel close to this kind of art practice, which takes on mass culture as a whole and deals with things that are very simple — things that are just around you — for what they are. This is a very important work for me; I was deeply inspired by it.”

© 2008 Jeff Koons