1. Jeffrey Vallance is best known for projects that blur the lines between object-making, installation, performance, curation and anthropological study.
15 Facts About Jeffrey Vallance
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Jeffrey Vallance is the leading force in a distinct version of Intervention Art called Infiltration Art.
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Jeffrey Vallance 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.
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Young Jeffrey Vallance was 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.
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Jeffrey Vallance did a series of drawings of a bearded and bespectacled Dr Loam.
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In 1983, Jeffrey Vallance traveled to Polynesia in search of the myth of Tiki.
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In 1992, while doing volunteer work for the city-council campaign of disgraced former Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry, Jeffrey Vallance curated "Splashing with Barry," an art exhibit at Barry's residence in the Washington View Apartments.
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In 2004, Jeffrey Vallance curated the first art-world exhibition of artist Thomas Kinkade, entitled "Thomas Kinkade: Heaven on Earth," at CalState Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center in Orange County, California.
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Also in 1983, Jeffrey Vallance appeared on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman to discuss what was then his best-known project, Blinky the Friendly Hen, in which he purchased a frozen chicken from a grocery store and buried it at a Los Angeles pet cemetery, and Cultural Ties, a "mail art" project involving the exchange of neckwear with such international dignitaries as Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan, Austrian president Rudolf Kirchschlager and dozens of others.
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In 1984, Jeffrey Vallance appeared on an episode of The Regis Philbin Show to teach Philbin how to make art.
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Jeffrey Vallance has appeared in numerous European and Asian arts and culture documentaries.
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Jeffrey Vallance created an onstage backdrop for the band Oingo Boingo which was used on tour and seen on The Joan Rivers Show.
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In 2004, Jeffrey Vallance received the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award for installation art.
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Since 2003, when psychic medium Dorothy Maksym identified Vallance as being the earthly spokesperson for the disembodied spirit of former US president Richard M Nixon, Vallance has taken an interest in the paranormal, contributing stories to the UK's Fortean Times and leading ghost tours of the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.
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Jeffrey Vallance currently teaches a course called "The Art of Infiltration" at California Institute of the Arts, in Santa Clarita, California.