Dave Muller
Dave Muller (American, born 1964), Free Your Ass and Your Mind Will Follow, 2018, acrylic on gessoed wood, 24 in. diameter x 1 1/4 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2018.4.
The title of this work is a riff on the 1970 Funkadelic album Free Your Mind...and Your Ass Will Follow. As artist Dave Muller describes: “I’m from a generation that used to watch a lot of syndicated television as kids. K-tel Records commercials were common there, delivering frequent earworms from bygone days. Even today I still remember the choruses from most of these songs not from radio airplay but from the ads selling these mail-order-Frankenstein-monster compilations with non sequitur titles. Come on, what’s so Mind Bending about these songs?”