Remember these? In 2009, at one of the last shows at NYC’s fabled Deitch Gallery, artists Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman put together the Black Acid Co-Op. The piece essentially showed the aftermath of what would happen if a meth lab exploded in an urban wasteland. Besides the obvious meth lab, the installation included newspapers strewn across the floor, astrological charts, sleeping coyotes, a torn up gallery, and, most strikingly for many, a Chinese bodega selling pornographic t-shirts. We finally found Jason Faulkner, the artist who airbrushed the shirts. We spoke about how the shirts came to fruition, the appeal of airbrushing, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and his more recent work.
Vice: I know the shirts were originally a part of the Black Acid Co-Op show, how did that come about?
Jason Faulkner: Well, my relationship to the artists in Black Acid Co-Op was my responding to a Craigslist post. My job was to drive the box truck around to pick up materials. I was involved in the heavy labor of everything, just kind of general building. I didn’t really have any urge to do anything for the show with my own art, I strictly wanted to observe and just hang out and enjoy it.
And then they found out you were an artist?
They had initially talked about the idea of making pornographic shirts, but I didn’t think about it. Towards the end they started asking, “do you know anyone that can airbrush?” That sort of thing. I’ve been working with the airbrush for over 10 years, so basically I kind of gave it a shot. They gave me a couple of shitty porno magazines and asked me to pick something to do. They really fell in love with them right away, from the first few sketches.
They’re instantly memorable because you never see airbrushes of hardcore pornography. So the images are from magazines?
Yeah and a lot of them were from the internet. I spent a lot of time looking for something that was above the ordinary, something a little more novel.
The novelty definitely shows. Did you hesitate at all when making any of the shirts? Specifically, there’s a bestiality ones with a woman having sex with a dog and there’s the one with a piece of fruit coming out of a girl’s ass. Did any of these make you squeamish, or was it anything goes?
Well, really I started out with magazines and then started finding things online. The more hardcore ones came at the end. There was sort of a build-up, I had like a dozen porn shirts and I asked myself how I could raise the stakes? It was kind of fun, the reactions especially, from people who found the shirts hilarious to the disgusted.
I think the one of the lemon coming out of a chick’s asshole became kind of iconic for me. I’ve done a lot of work that was dark or sexual in nature – I really kind of started out that way when I was younger, so I didn’t feel nervous necessarily. But I did make two different bestiality ones. You know, sex with dogs it’s just so fucking wrong wrong. Like, if you’ve ever heard of that as a real story, like if anyone you know participating in it, it’s just like [shudders].
Read the whole interview and see the rest of the shirts at VICE Style
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