Vik Muniz

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Vik Muniz (Brazil, 1961) is an avant-garde artist who experiments with novel media. For example, he made two detailed replicas of the Mona Lisa: one out of jelly and the other out of peanut butter. He has also worked in sugar, wire, thread, and Bosco Chocolate Syrup. Many of Muniz's works are new approaches to older pieces; he has reinterpreted a number of Monet's paintings, including paintings of the cathedral at Rouen, which Muniz accomplished using sand and small stones.

More recently he has been creating larger-scale works, such as pictures carved into the earth (geoglyphs) or made of huge piles of junk. His sense of humor comes through in his "Pictures of Clouds" series, in which he had a skywriter draw crude outlines of clouds in the sky.

Muniz currently has a number of works on display at the Miami Art Museum in downtown Miami, Florida. Muniz also has a solo exhibition at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, Florida currently called "Vik Muniz: Reflex". This exhibition, organized by the Miami Art Museum, is currently also on display at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.

[edit] External links

• Vik Muniz works
• Official web site
• PBS Independent Lens feature
• It's a Leonardo? It's a Corot? Well, No, It's Chocolate Syrup from the New York Times