The Secret Life Of Toys

This gallery entitled ‘The Secret Life Of Toys’ is the work of Brian McCarty. an American artist based in Los Angeles.

A former employee of toy company Mattel, he has set up his own studio to become a leading light in the Urban Vinyl / Art-Toy movement, popularised by fellow artists such as Takashi Murakami

His work fuses reality and hyperreality through the personification of toy characters, integrated into actual settings with pictures such as the one above showing a Barack Obama figure at the Lorraine Motel, scene of Martin Luther King’s assassination.

See more of Brian McCarty’s work at his website or at his Flickr page

All Images © Brian McCarty

Posted on September 4, 2009 | Filed Under Really

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