Ben Harben’s Bubblegum Society
The Bubblegum Society is a collection of art made up of reality television stars such as Joe Millionaire, Paris Hilton and William Hung. Each star's likeness has been "chewed up and spit out" in ordinary bubblegum on canvas.
Harben uses chewing gum as a medium in an attempt to draw attention to the sugar-coated disposability of television's 15-minute famers. He presents their well-chewed portraits in tribute to their inevitable decline. Harben sees these decomposing portraits as an allusion to the way that society half-digests those relegated to fast fame, before moving onto the next empty-calorie, low-substance entertainment snack.
Ben Harben is an artist and freelance graphic designer drawing from a diverse education in fine arts and graphic design to produce work through a multitude of mediums. Illustrations, painting, interactive and bubblegum are a few of the tools through which brands, promotions and observations are presented. He has been creating bubble gum portraits for exhibition and commission since 1998.
thiss looks veryy odd. and kinda funny
ReplyDeleteI like his ideas about celebritys and fast fame.-samantha batt 8th period
ReplyDeleteThis is very helpful.
ReplyDeleteWow Thats Alot Of Gum !
ReplyDeleteHe GOOD at making stuff with gum!
ReplyDeleteWhoah, I never knew bubblegum art was as widespread as it is, and that so many people have the skill to make a name for themselves with it.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a lot of gum to chew. My jaw hurts after chewing 4 gums i wonder how he does it.
ReplyDeleteSorry I didn't take notes the first time. To do what this is artist and other artist are doing takes so much skill. I'm barely doing buddha and some of these artist are doing life-size objects.
ReplyDeletethats cool
ReplyDeletei like the fact he started out just doing it as a school project
ReplyDeleteand now ended up to almost make a career out of it somewhat,
and ended up on the news. cool cool
the concept in it about the celebritys i love it.
This is interesting.
ReplyDeleteit's interesting how you can really make art out of anything
ReplyDeletei really like that Ben keeps up with his projects and made a job out of it,
ReplyDeletethats cool he is really good.
ReplyDeletewaw i know if i were to do that my jaw would have allready been craming.but i like his art its really good
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