Paul McCarthy
Year born:
1945
Location:
Salt Lake City, UT
Paul McCarthy is known for visceral, shocking, and sexually charged sculptures and performance pieces that feature pop-culture icons in a bacchanalia of blood, semen, and feces. McCarthy uses wigs, masks, and sex-shop items in addition to chocolate sauce, ketchup, and mayonnaise to create disturbing scenes that comment on human degradation and perversion.