Utah artist Horacio Rodriguez has given 3D casts of the boombox to 10 local artists, each to make their own. The 10 artists have each picked a nonprofit organization to support through the sale of their boombox.
Over the course of four months, Salt Lake-based ceramicist Horacio Rodriguez cast ten porcelain boomboxes, as he talks about passing them on to local artists to paint and alter on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. The BoomBox Benefit is now on display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art to help local charities.In 1984, when Utah artist Horacio Rodriguez was in the fifth grade, he got a boombox for Christmas.
“At that time, when boomboxes were really prevalent and popular, they were these devices that could disrupt the space,” Rodriguez said. “The boombox has traditionally been like this object that can be brought into a space and disrupts what’s happening by the way it projects sound and can play a message.
In his first mass-scale exhibit as a curator, happening at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Rodriguez has given 3D casts of the boombox — based on a mold he made of his original boombox in grad school — to 10 local artists, each to make their own.
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