projects

For this project the McCoys hired fifty actors to replace them in executing the many responsibilities they undertake every day.

Exploring the idea of substitution, two large scale photographs. "Jennifer and Ken McCoy/Jessica and Kevin McCoy" are post performative photographs in which one of the artists is paired with a rotating array of passer-bys, friends, and colleagues dressed as the significant other.

In Vice Presidential Downtime Requirements , (2008) the McCoys assemble a suite of furniture taken from the travel requests of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Made for the exhibition, "Model as Muse," at the Addison Museum of Art, this kinetic sculpture places s a "ready-made' antique model in the center as a moving camera encircles it, creating the impression of rollicking waves on the accompanying projection.

In the two Big Box sculptures, models of an American-style big box shopping mall are placed on a slowly rotating turntable.

The Constant World, with its incorporation of thirty-six live video cameras, presents a utopian world that acts as its own advertisement. This installation is a large interconnected series of ceiling mounted metal spheres, models, and lights. It portrays a film noir melodrama set in an urban environment that is intercut with text elements. The result, seen on flat screen displays, beckons the viewers to inhabit the place seen onscreen.

The artists are portrayed as young people in a miniature tableau which reconstructs an early experience in which a future career experience was imagined. Kevin wanted to be a "scientist in a secret cave" and Jennifer wanted to be "a diplomat's wife".

Scary Things is made of images of the simple elements of nature that can be frightening to children.

A large two-sided wheel, set at a forty-five degree angle, rotates slowly on its axis.

Scary Things is made of images of the simple elements of nature that can be frightening to children.

Special Things presents images of a utopian childhood complete with cavorting lambs and chiffon rainbows.

The artists are portrayed as children experiencing early spiritual/religious events.