Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous assault on aesthetic conventions and the rules governing the art world-wryly subverting those very conditions by using them as materials for his work.

In 2002, Rhoades introduced the world to his PeaRoeFoam, a "brand new product and revolutionary new material" created from whole green peas, fish-bait style salmon eggs, and white virgin-beaded foam. When combined with non-toxic glue, they transform into a versa...