Allen Bukoff's ArtMarket

The Public Marketplace for Allen Bukoff's Recent Creative Work

Items currently available for purchase are highlighted in yellow.

five new
Evil Art Objects

Additional online documentation about all five of these Evil Art objects can be found here. To view the online documentation for a particular object, please click on either its photo or title. Before purchasing, please carefully read the Purchase Arrangements section below.

No Body (2008). Sixteen inches tall on a 3 1/2 inch by 3 1/2 inch by 6 inch pedestal. Wooden block, rusted sheets of steel, nails, wire, body parts from toy action figure.

$50.00* (USD)

Shipping will be
an additional charge
and a separate transaction
(see *Purchase Arrangements).

"Bring me the head of Barbie!" (2008). Fourteen inches tall on a 3 1/2 inch by 3 1/2 inch by 11 1/2 inch pedestal. Wooden block, rusted sheets of steel, nails, wire, parts from doll and toy action figure.

$50.00* (USD)

Purchased by Melissa McCarthy
Lakeport, New Hampshire

Sarcophagus (2009). Twelve inches long, 3 3/4 inches wide, and 5 1/2 inches tall. Wooden block, rusted sheets of steel, nails, toy action figure, sticks, and asphalt roofing cement.

$50.00* (USD)

Shipping will be
an additional charge
and a separate transaction
(see *Purchase Arrangements).

Revenge of the Tar Pit (2009). Five-and-one-quarter inches tall on 8 inch square metal-covered wooden block. Wooden block, rusted sheets of steel, nails, toy action figure, and asphalt roofing cement.

$50.00* (USD)

Shipping will be
an additional charge
and a separate transaction
(see *Purchase Arrangements).

Body Parts Rack (2009). Eight inches tall on a 11 3/8 inch by 5 7/8 inch wooden block. Wooden block, old painted peg board, nails, screws, rusted steel, red nail polish, and toy action-figure parts.

$50.00* (USD)

Shipping will be
an additional charge
and a separate transaction
(see *Purchase Arrangements).

*Purchase Arrangements

For additional photos and information about each Evil Art Object, click on its picture or title in the list above.
To purchase one of these objects, please click on its "Buy Now" button, and use PayPal to complete the $50.00 USD transaction.
Unless you arrange to pick your Evil Art object up directly from me, shipping your Evil Art Object requires a second, separate transaction. I will pack up the object and take it to the post office to find out what postage will be. Then I will email you what the total shipping cost will be (postage + any materials I need to buy to pack it up). You may then reimburse me via PayPal, check, or any other means we both agree on.
Purchasers agree to let me identify them on future versions of this website as being the object's owner/donor and to provide information to future collectors who may wish to contact them.
You may only purchase one Evil Art object during the original sale.

To receive notification before the next sale, please send me your email address by clicking here.

If you see an item you want, you can try contacting the current owner (click on owner's name for email address) and see if they would be interested in selling it to you. You never know...they might even pay you to take it!

Fluxus Indian Museum offers five
Tomato Tomahawks

When European settlers first discovered these artifacts, they mistakenly assumed that these stick-and-rock objects were violent weapons--like tomahawks--that had been used against animals and enemies. In fact, however, the Fluxus Indians used these weighted stakes as garden poles for growing tomatoes and beans. The five "Tomato Tomahawks" offered for sale here are re-creations that have been used for several summers of tomato growing by members of the modern-day Fluxus Midwest and have now been acquired by the Fluxus Indian Museum, Coon Rapids, Iowa.

Additional online documentation about these Tomato Tomahawks can be found here. Before purchasing, please carefully review the object's documentation by clicking on it's photo/title in the listing below.

Also please note that these objects are somewhat fragile and impermanent--the steel wires used to wrap the bricks to the sticks are rusting and the tree-branch sticks are in various stages of decay.

Fluxus Indian Tomato Tomahawk #1 (re-creation). Broken old clay brick attached to wooden stick with steel wire. Object weighs 2 lbs. 13 oz. and is 39-inches long. Comes with official Fluxus Indian Museum tag: two 2" x 3" durable photo patches sewn onto a piece of red vinyl cut from an old tobbogan cushion.

$5.00* (USD)

Purchased by Jamie Newton.
Donated to
the Fluxus Indian Museum.

Fluxus Indian Tomato Tomahawk #2 (re-creation). Old clay brick attached to wooden stick with steel wire. Object weighs 6 lbs. 6 oz. and is 56-inches long. Comes with official Fluxus Indian Museum tag: two 2" x 3" durable photo patches sewn onto a piece of red vinyl cut from an old tobbogan cushion.

$5.00* (USD)

Purchased by Andy Dillon
Warren, Michigan

Fluxus Indian Tomato Tomahawk #3 (re-creation). Old clay brick attached to wooden stick with steel wire. Object weighs 5 lbs. 9 oz. and is 58-inches long. Comes with official Fluxus Indian Museum tag: two 2" x 3" durable photo patches sewn onto a piece of red vinyl cut from an old tobbogan cushion.

$5.00* (USD)

Purchased as a gift
for someone in
Metropolitan Detroit

Fluxus Indian Tomato Tomahawk #4 (re-creation). Old clay brick attached to wooden stick with steel wire. Object weighs 6 lbs. 7 oz. and is 70-inches long. Comes with official Fluxus Indian Museum tag: two 2" x 3" durable photo patches sewn onto a piece of red vinyl cut from an old tobbogan cushion.

$5.00* (USD)

Shipping in USA will be
an additional $45 - $75 charge.
Please see *Purchase Arrangements for details.

Fluxus Indian Tomato Tomahawk #5 (re-creation). Old clay brick attached to wooden stick with steel wire. Object weighs 6 lbs. 7 oz. and is 59-inches long. Comes with official Fluxus Indian Museum tag: two 2" x 3" durable photo patches sewn onto a piece of red vinyl cut from an old tobbogan cushion.

$5.00* (USD)

Purchased by Cheryl Bukoff
Detroit, Michigan

*Purchase Arrangements

For additional photos and information about each tomato tomahawk, click on it's picture or title in the list above.
To purchase one of these tomahawks, please click on its "Buy Now" button, and use PayPal to complete the $5.00 USD transaction.
Shipping the tomato tomahawk requires a second, separate transaction. There are several different ways you can handle or avoid ownership and shipping costs--please read the following very carefully:

You can elect to have the tomahawk shipped to you. Shipping costs include $10.00 for shipping materials (cardboard, tape, etc.) and approximately $35.00 to $50.00 postage depending on where you live in the United States. International shipping will be considerably more.

You can purchase a tomahawk for $5 USD and elect to permanently donate it to the Fluxus Indian Museum in Coon Rapids, Iowa. There will be no shipping charges or other costs to you. You will receive the official museum tag (shown below) and a certificate of donation, and you will be listed as a donor on this website, on the tomato tomahawk's official web page, and on its museum display.

You can purchase a tomahawk for $5 USD and avoid or delay the shipping charge by electing to have the Fluxus Indian Museum store it for you (at an annual charge of $5.00 per year) until you make arrangements to either pick it up or have it shipped to you. In the meantime you will be mailed the official museum tag (shown above) as well as documentation of ownership.

Purchasers agree to let me identify them on future versions of this website as being the object's owner/donor and to provide information to future collectors who may wish to contact them.
You may only purchase one tomato tomahawk during the original sale.

Science Art
Science Blocks

Five unique metal-covered wooden blocks on casters are offered for sale.

The metal strips covering these blocks were cut from the metal cases of educational chemistry and biology kits. I used science kits that were created and marketed during the 1950s and 1960s to encourage greater science education among America's youth. The cases for these science kits often used heroic images of young people involved in science research and presented messages that stressed the importance of science as a building block for American success and global leadership. Science and America on the move!

Instructions and purchase arrangements

For more information about each block, click on it's picture or title in the listing below.
To purchase one of these blocks, please click on its "Buy Now" button, and use PayPal to complete the transaction.
Limit one item/purchase per family.
Shipping these objects will require a second, separate transaction.
Purchasers agree to let me identify them and to provide information about how to contact them on a future version of this website.

Science Block No. 1 (2009). Metal strips cut from cases of old educational chemistry sets nailed to a solid wood block with 1-inch steel nails all sitting on four caster wheels attached with screws.

Block is 5.5 x 5.5 x 9 inches, stands 11-inches tall, and weighs 7 lbs. 9 oz.

$40.00* (USD)

Sold to
Chris Butler,
Accord,
New York

Science Block No. 2 (2009). Metal strips cut from cases of old educational chemistry sets nailed to a solid wood block with 1-inch steel nails all sitting on four caster wheels attached with screws.

Block is 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches, stands 7.5-inches tall, and weighs 5 lbs. 9 oz.

$40.00* (USD)

The ownership
of this object
is currently
in arbitration.

Science Block No. 3 (2009). Metal strips cut from cases of old educational chemistry sets nailed to a solid wood block with 1-inch steel nails all sitting on four caster wheels attached with screws.

Block is 5.5 x 4 x 5.5 inches, stands 7.5-inches tall, and weighs 3 lbs. 7 oz.

$40.00 (USD)

Sold to
Kerry Moore
Context Furniture,
Southfield,
Michigan

Science Block No. 4 (2009). Metal strips cut from cases of old educational chemistry sets nailed to a solid wood block with 1-inch steel nails all sitting on four caster wheels attached with screws.

Block is 5.5 x 5.5 x 4 inches, stands 6-inches tall, and weighs 3 lbs. 10 oz.

$40.00* (USD)

Sold to
Kerry Moore
Context Furniture,
Southfield,
Michigan

Science Block No. 5 (2009). Metal strips cut from cases of old educational chemistry sets nailed to a solid wood block with 1-inch steel nails all sitting on four caster wheels attached with screws.

Block is 5.5 x 7.5 x 5.5 inches, stands 7.5-inches tall, and weighs 6 lbs. 3 oz.

$40.00* (USD)

Sold to
Jaynemarie Lentlie,
Voorheesville, NY

Dissecting Christmas.
Christmas Tree 2008 in Five Boxes.
The following items went on sale on June 9, 2008, and sold out in less than 30 minutes.

Christmas Tree 2008 is a series of five cigar boxes filled with pieces from our 2008 Christmas Tree. The Christmas Tree was featured in our 2008 digital Christmas Card. Boxed pieces from the dissection of this tree were first presented on my Recent Work Blog and is documented on its own website. Please carefully review that website or click on the item photo/title in the listing below before purchasing.

Box 1 Christmas Tree 2008. Seven cut branches from a Christmas Tree and a cloth label in a cigar box. Small outer branches with some needles. Butera Royal Vintage brand wooden cigar box (outer dimensions: approximately 7.25 x 6 x 2-inches) with hinged lid. Includes hand-washed 5.5 x 5.25-inch heavy canvas cloth label.

$25 in USA
$35 outside USA
Cost of shipping included.

Purchased by
Harvey Gold
Bath, Ohio

Box 2 Christmas Tree 2008. Cross-cut pieces of branches and a cloth label in a cigar box. Ninety-three branch sections varying from 1 to 1.5-inches long and .5 to .75-inches in diameter. Butera Royal Vintage brand wooden cigar box (outer dimensions: approximately 7.25 x 7 x 2-inches) with hinged lid. Includes hand-washed 6 x 5.75-inch heavy canvas cloth label.

$25 in USA
$35 outside USA
Cost of shipping included.

Purchased by
Jamie Newton
Hillsboro, Oregon

BOX 2 CHRISTMAS TREE 2008 SIMULACRUM, by Jamie Newton. Square cardboard box with cardboard lid measuring 5 x 5 x 2.5 inches. Title of piece is rubber stamped on lid in red ink. Box contains 72 cut wooden dowel rods varying in width from 3/8 inches to 13/16 inches and varying from 1 7/8 to 2 5/16 inches in length. Box comes with a 3-pak of "Royal Pine" air freshners.

Jamie Newton purchased Box 2 Christmas Tree 2008 and then produced and offered for sale the "knock off" shown here. This piece was offered for sale by email and was purchased by Allen Bukoff for $25. It is now offered for sale again.

$75.00* (USD)

*Cost of shipping
--domestic or international--
included.

Box 3 Christmas Tree 2008. Chunky parts of Christmas tree branches and a cloth label in a cigar box. Twenty-three sections where several or more branches originate were cut and placed in a Zino brand wooden cigar box (outer dimensions: approximately 8.5 x 5.5 x 2-inches) with hinged lid. The pieces vary in size from 2 x 2.5-inches to 1 x 1.5-inches. Includes hand-washed 6.75 x 4.5-inch heavy canvas cloth label.

$25 in USA
$35 outside USA
Cost of shipping included.

Purchased by
Gene Sasso
Cleveland, Ohio

Box 4 Christmas Tree 2008. Ten branches and a cloth label in a cigar box. Pieces cut from inner branches--5 to 7-inches in length and 3/8 to 5/8-inches in diameter. Davidoff brand wooden cigar box (approximately 7.5 x 4 x 2-inches). Hand-washed 6.5 x 3.25-inch heavy canvas cloth label.

$25 in USA
$35 outside USA
Cost of shipping included.

Purchased by
Harvey Gold
Bath, Ohio

Box 5 Christmas Tree 2008. Nine needle-covered Christmas tree branches and a cloth label in a cigar box. End branches from our Fraser Fir Christmas tree cut to approximately 4-inches in length. Fonseca brand wooden cigar box (outer dimensions: 4.25 x 5.5 x 2-inches) with hinged lid (that only opens half way). Includes hand-washed 2.75 x 4.25-inch heavy canvas cloth label.

$25 in USA
$35 outside USA
Cost of shipping included.

Purchased by
Janice Putman
Birmingham, Michigan

Statement from Allen Bukoff (June 9, 2009). Although I have presented and documented a lot of my previous work on the internet (e.g., allenbukoff.com for starters), I have rarely sold my art work or exhibited it in traditional art venues. I have now decided to make a concerted effort to start doing this. I want to do this in a way that will promote the sale and value of my work and create an expanding network of collectors. This is how I hope to accomplish this:

Create a public market place where I can sell my new art work (this website).
Sell my new work as quickly and as easily as possible to as many different people/organizations as possible.
Create a public database where the ownership and value of these objects can be tracked.
Continue to promote the value and meaning of my art work for the benefit of those who purchase it.

To sell my art work quickly and to help maximize the likelihood that it will increase in value, I am initially going to sell my work very inexpensively, in small batches (often a series of objects from one project), and in publicly announced sales. I experimented with this approach several years ago (see below) and it worked very well, so I am creating a permanent home for it here.

Backwards Art.
Five hanging frames.

Backwards Art - an application of the The Art Guys' Wrongheadedness Principle to a series of canvas art frames featuring both the old and new logos for Fluxus Midwest. These objects were originally exhibited during a performance, One-hour Exhibition, April 21, 2007. The objects and the performance are documented here. The five frames listed below were sold in one day on FluxShop, an online store for new Fluxus art, on December 25, 2007.

Frame #1. Wooden frame made from 2.5 x 1.5 inch pine lumber. Outer dimensions are 10.75 x 12 inches. Original Fluxus Midwest logo image (3.75 x 5 inches) on on 100% cotton duck cloth.