(Newcastle, 1965-Los Angeles, 2006)
A visual artist, he creates chaotic environments in his multimedia installations where objects found and altered by Rhodes accumulate. Trained at the California College of Arts and Crafts, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California in Los Angeles. The theme of his works revolves around subaltern cultures, the daily aspects of the great Californian metropolis, its heterodox urban structure and the consumerist behavior of its inhabitants.
His work, Shit Plug (2002), was presented at MediaLab, a project carried out together with Paul McCarthy, where they manipulate waste and use a bottle as a container. The 11-liter Shit Plugs are presented in the exhibition along with the Shit-Sledge/Sleds, masses of rubber that the artists found at the Phoenix Rubber Works factory. These prefabs fascinated artists because of their completely fortuitous shape and the fact that a perfect sculpture (in reality, the waste material of an industrial manufacturing process) could be found in the back of a factory.
