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Jeffrey Karl Reese Vallance (born January 25, 1955 in Redondo Beach, California) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Best known for projects that blur the lines between object-making, installation, performance, curation and anthropological study. ==Early life== Raised in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley during that region’s transformation from a mix of agricultural and suburban communities into one enormous expanse of strip malls and cookie-cutter houses, much of Vallance’s early work is informed by regional iconography and pop culture, including his parents’ fascination with Polynesian/Tiki imagery, and, later, his stepfather’s affection for President Richard M. Nixon. Vallance received a BA in Art from California State University, Northridge, in 1979, and an MFA from the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1981. Vallance is the leading force in a distinct version of Intervention Art called Infiltration Art. He creates art by interacting with real-world institutions, communities, politicians, religions, museums and pop-culture figures, tampering within bureaucratic structures to create change without creating conflict. His first public infiltration took place in 1977, when, dressed as a janitor, he sneaked into the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and exchanged the gallery wall-socket plates with his own hand-painted versions. Vallance’s childhood involvement with his local Lutheran church inspired much of his later interest in and depictions of religious subjects. Young Vallance was also influenced by the morbid humor of ''The Addams Family'' and ''The Munsters'' television shows, and the feature films ''The Loved One'', ''Harold and Maude'' and ''Mondo Cane'' (which he now describes as “a sick collection of imagery that warped my young mind”). His first formal training came from his maternal grandfather, Norwegian folk artist Karl Reese, for whom he is (middle-)named. Vallance’s over 80 performances have often involved interactions with foreign dignitaries, including audiences with King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga at the Royal Palace in Nuku’alofa, Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, and Icelandic presidents Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at Forseti Höll in Reykjavík. In the early 1970s, during the Cold War, Vallance corresponded with government officials in the Soviet Union and Red China, trading political badges with Communist Party leaders. For his efforts, Vallance was investigated by US federal officials and earned a 12-page FBI file. At Los Angeles Pierce College in the mid 1970s he created a series of his own wallets, complete with photos & I.D. cards, that he purposefully "lost" at government and public institutions such as The White House. Shown in the Library Building, the wallets were displayed alongside the letters received, on official stationary, when they were returned to him by U. S. Mail. He also did a series of drawings of a bearded and bespectacled Dr. Loam. The series depicted the good Dr. interacting with various and sundry aspects of life, culminating with one titled "Dr. Loam gets a Lobotomy". Quickly executed in colorful markers on poster board, they were hung all over the campus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeffrey Vallance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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