The Art Guys™
"Forever Yours"
The Art Guys offer to sell themselves!

pictured above: "Forever Yours" (2007-09) bronze busts with engraved brass plaques, digital archival print in gold frame, installed at McClain Gallery, May, 2009

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In what could be considered their most ambitious, outrageous project to date,
The Art Guys are offering themselves - their actual cremated remains after they die - for sale!

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"Forever Yours" includes the cremated ashes of The Art Guys which will be housed in life-sized bronze replica busts [see above], one for each of The Art Guys.  Included with the sale of this art work, are all studies, legal documents, the final drawing/contract and various artifacts.  While the collector will legally own the cremated remains of The Art Guys, these remains will not be made available until after the death of both Art Guys (date unknown).  However, all other artifacts associated with this art work, as listed in the Buyer's Agreement, immediately become available to the collector who acquires this work.

In this unprecedented work of art, a collector may purchase The Art Guys – not just their work – but the actual artists! 

For the first time, a collector may purchase an actual artist! (or in this case, two artists.)

Price: $1,000,000 (U.S.)
pictured above: "Forever Yours" contract (2007-09) digital archival print in gold frame

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Articles, Press and Photos

Artists auction ashes but their dust is bust -Lisa Gray reports on the failure of "Forever Yours" to sell.

The People's Critic: The Dead Guys - Dolan Smith of GlassTire rates "Forever Yours" in his article of February 15, 2008.

Kiss my ash - HOUSTON magazine compares funerals and weddings, February, 2008.

The Art Guys attempt to sell themselves- Lisa Gray believes "'Forever Yours' wraps the subjects of death, art and money in a package even more shocking than Damien Hirst's work." Find out why she thinks so by reading her article in The Houston Chronicle, January 27, 2008.

The Art Guys answer- The Art Guys answer Jeanne Claire van Ryzin's questions about endings. Read all about it in her blog for the Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 2008.

Houston artists seek to auction their cremated remains - Jeanne Claire van Ryzin thinks "Forever Yours" takes The Art Guys' "provocative and outrageous art to a new extreme."

Own The Art Guys (What's left of them) - The Art Guys discuss finality with Dan Goddard of the San Antonio Express News, January 16, 2008


Notsuoh: freedom with just a little supervision - Jack pitches "Forever Yours" to Kristin Finan of the Houston Chronicle. December 21, 2007

( Articles and Press are PDF files. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, CLICK HERE .)

Fabrication of "Forever Yours"


The Art Guys were scanned using a 3D laser scanner to capture their likenesses. Scans performed by SculptCad



3D data files were created in preparation for fabrication of prototypes.
Final 3D renderings by Chris Lockwood of Herring Design

Pictured above: studies for The Art Guys bronze urns - (left) Mike, (right) Jack


[L. to R.] Samples of rapid prototypes in polyurethane foam and machinable wax prepared for molds for bronze casting. Milling begins for busts used for casting.
Prototypes by Matrix Art Collective

Casting by artist Ken Little

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