Play-Doh (sculpture)

Play-Doh is a painted aluminum sculpture by Jeff Koons, made between 1994 and 2014.

It is formed of 27 separate pieces of polychromed aluminum and was first publicly shown at the retrospective of Koons' work in 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC.

[1] The title refers to the modeling compound named Play-Doh which is used for arts and crafts projects by young children.

In the same commentary Koons said "If you take Play-Doh apart... they're organic shapes that all stack on top of each other... so that these surfaces are meeting on the inside and you never see that... the public doesn't see it but I think that you feel it and it has kind of a Freudian quality to it.

This was with the aim of reproducing the appearance of the "Play-Doh" modeling compound on which the sculpture is based.