Paul McCarthy: Tomato Head
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
Paul McCarthy’s Tomato Head (Green) anchors his new show at 7000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, running December 13, 2024, through February 8, 2025. This provocative exhibition revisits one of McCarthy’s most significant works from the 1990s, critiquing consumer culture, identity, and the illusions of the American Dream. Alongside the iconic sculpture, the show includes sketches revealing the creative process and Wolf-Pig (2024), a bold exploration into AI-generated video. Presented as part of Post Human, the exhibit is a raw interrogation of cultural myths through McCarthy’s signature lens of visceral satire.
Collectively, this becomes a surreal collision of play and provocation, the pieces transform familiar icons of innocence into a disorienting figures that dare you to confront the fractures in our cultural façade.
This show is less an exhibition and more a hall of mirrors, reflecting the distorted truths lurking beneath the myths we hold sacred.
