easyfamily
2024
Printed and stretched cotton twill, wood dowels, PLA, Perfect Cast casting medium, inkjet prints on copier paper, Mod Podge
(see disclaimer)
41 x 28 x 9.5 inches
2024
Printed and stretched cotton twill, wood dowels, PLA, Perfect Cast casting medium, inkjet prints on copier paper, Mod Podge
(see disclaimer)
41 x 28 x 9.5 inches
DEVICE (pre pre alpha (working))
2025
Urethane plastic, acrylic spray paint, HD media player, monitor, misc. off-the-shelf components
05:05 video
(see disclaimer)
10.5 x 9 x 3 inches
agree 2 AGREE (Keebler Ready Crust, Baked Beans, Peter Pan Peanut Butter, Kraft Mayonnaise, Velveeta Cheese)
2025
Wood dowels, PLA, Ecoresin, epoxy resin, epoxy clay, acrylic paint, acrylic sheets, lenticular prints, cotton jersey, USB spotlights, battery pack
(see disclaimer)
40.5 x 27.5 x 13 inches
Welcome to Maturity
2023
Vinyl banner
48 x 72 inches
DEVICE (pre pre alpha (vacant))
2025
Urethane plastic, acrylic spray paint, inkjet print on foamcore
10.5 x 9 x 3 inches
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Parent Company is pleased to announce preLAUNCH, a solo exhibition by Kevin Dudley. preLAUNCH is comprised of a series of sculptures that satirize contemporary media consumption and push our always-connected reality to its logical—and deeply unsettling—extreme. The constellation of objects comes together to create a bizarre yet familiar ecosystem, where identity is manipulated, heightened, and commodified in service of commerce.
DEVICE is a prototype content player and bowl designed for the whole family—parents, children, and even pets. Made with a flesh-tone urethane shell and off-the-shelf video components, DEVICE plays a looping promotional video. The video advertises DEVICE itself as a fantastic invention that promises connection through yet another gadget you need to buy (each sold separately, batteries not included). DEVICE points to Tech’s recurring fantasy: that only it can resolve the challenges it has introduced.
For this exhibition, DEVICEs are filled with Kelce Mix, a collaboration between General Mills and the NFL stars, Travis and Jason Kelce. Purchased at an inflated scalper price, the cereal points to artificial and fleeting means of constructing value, feeding us celebrities at an ever-increasing pace.
easyfamily is an advertisement for DEVICE mounted on a 3D printed armature. The still image is constructed from a manipulated found photograph, combined with AI-generated personas. This generic white family stands in as the imagined consumer base. Throughout the show, race, along with other signifiers of identity, are flattened into a consumer-driven meaninglessness.
agree 2 AGREE was created with the data collected by a proprietary research tool designed to uncover consumer affinities across demographic and racial groups. The resulting sculpture fuses top-performing foods into a grotesque pie made of Keebler Readycrust, baked beans, Peter Pan peanut butter, Velveeta cheese, and Kraft mayonnaise.
Data emerges as a through-line in this exhibition, whether volunteered willingly, as in the case of the research tool, or covertly harvested in the case of AI. Ultimately, the work is about Tech’s promise to steamroll over humanity’s complexities by using data as the medium for that flattening. Why should you care, Tech might ask, if you have a cool product at the end of the day?
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Disclaimer: These pieces include elements created using AI Image Generation
DEVICE is a prototype content player and bowl designed for the whole family—parents, children, and even pets. Made with a flesh-tone urethane shell and off-the-shelf video components, DEVICE plays a looping promotional video. The video advertises DEVICE itself as a fantastic invention that promises connection through yet another gadget you need to buy (each sold separately, batteries not included). DEVICE points to Tech’s recurring fantasy: that only it can resolve the challenges it has introduced.
For this exhibition, DEVICEs are filled with Kelce Mix, a collaboration between General Mills and the NFL stars, Travis and Jason Kelce. Purchased at an inflated scalper price, the cereal points to artificial and fleeting means of constructing value, feeding us celebrities at an ever-increasing pace.
easyfamily is an advertisement for DEVICE mounted on a 3D printed armature. The still image is constructed from a manipulated found photograph, combined with AI-generated personas. This generic white family stands in as the imagined consumer base. Throughout the show, race, along with other signifiers of identity, are flattened into a consumer-driven meaninglessness.
agree 2 AGREE was created with the data collected by a proprietary research tool designed to uncover consumer affinities across demographic and racial groups. The resulting sculpture fuses top-performing foods into a grotesque pie made of Keebler Readycrust, baked beans, Peter Pan peanut butter, Velveeta cheese, and Kraft mayonnaise.
Data emerges as a through-line in this exhibition, whether volunteered willingly, as in the case of the research tool, or covertly harvested in the case of AI. Ultimately, the work is about Tech’s promise to steamroll over humanity’s complexities by using data as the medium for that flattening. Why should you care, Tech might ask, if you have a cool product at the end of the day?
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Disclaimer: These pieces include elements created using AI Image Generation