Ghost of a Dream

Ghost of a Dream

American, Lauren Was (b. 1977) Adam Eckstrom (b. 1974)

About the Artist

Ghost of a Dream is the moniker of the ongoing collaboration between Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was, who respectively have backgrounds in painting and sculpture. The pair make sculptures and installations about common fantasies and desires—fame, wealth, true love, and salvation—from detritus and images from pop culture. Their common raw materials include dismembered trophy parts, romance novels, clips from Hollywood films, playing cards from casinos, and used lottery tickets. “Our sculpture and installations embody the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash,” the pair write. “We mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals.”--www.artsy.net/artist/ghost-of-a-dream

Excerpts from Katherine Brooks in Huffington Post April 16, 2013:

Artists Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom are serious about the lottery. Working together under the moniker "Ghost of a Dream," the two create giant, highly-detailed sculptures out of discarded lottery tickets found littered across the world. From New York to Switzerland to China, the married duo produce to-scale versions of luxury items as part of a poetic exploration of the lotto system.

"We kept finding these lost lottery tickets littered all over the ground and we started picking them up thinking they were someone's lost wish; that they were this hope and dream that they had and then they tossed it away. We started thinking about what those dreams actually meant and what happens if you collected enough of those to make that dream into a reality."


Their extravagant Lamborghini sculpture was erected in China, alluding to the fact that China is the second most frequent consumer of the Italian car, right behind the United States.

Works

Exhibitions

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