This book is from Reiman’s Michael Jackson Pollock series from 2007. A series of 5 photographic images - 27”x33” c-prints.

The 22 page book was published in 2008 with essay by Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Curator, at the ICA Boston. Ruth with the curator at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington VT when the work was made.

Michael Jackson Pollock gestures to this self-destructive instability through the marriage of two of America’s most famous artists—the painter Jackson Pollock and the pop superstar Michael Jackson. Originating from the semantic hinge of a shared name, this series of performance photographs constitutes a quasi-historical fantasy by drawing on the familiar and the unreal, the comic and the tragic, the planned and the accidental. Into the recreated barn studio of Pollock, Reiman inserts a hybrid character—an amalgamation of the painter and the pop star—who reenacts the painter’s signature technique of dripping loose paint onto a canvas laid flat on the studio floor while sporting a thick, jheri curl mane and an iconic glitter glove. Reiman integrates these cultural idols through a play of signs, and he uses the strategy of reenactment to compel a comparison of the artists and interrogate the mediation of collective memory.