The Art Newspaper

Valley girl makes good

By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 05 March 2010

Visitors to the Armory have been stopped in their tracks by a buff bronze Adonis chomping on a cigar on White Cube’s stand (P94/901), with rippling biceps, tattoos galore—and prominent pudenda. The transgendered statue by Marc Quinn (Buck with Cigar, 2009) is modelled on none other than the porn performer and activist Buck Angel, born a woman in Los Angeles. The striking work (an edition of three), is already on hold and will be included in Quinn’s upcoming show at the London gallery’s Hoxton Square space in May, which will feature other surgically transformed figures. Alongside Buck will be Allanah, his male-to-female counterpart caught in flagrante, and a doubly buxom Pamela Anderson, cast as a Siamese twin attached to her own hip.