One of the Renwick Gallery's most beloved treasures, “Game Fish” whimsically captures the artist's love of surface ornamentation. Since the late 1960s, Larry Fuente has delighted in covering readily identifiable forms with beads, plastic baubles, buttons, and mass-produced items of no intrinsic value, transforming the mundane into unique objects. Size is no deterrent to Fuente, who once spent five years coating a 1960 Cadillac sedan with one million brightly colored ornaments.

“Game Fish” is made of fiberglass, black auto-body type epoxy resin, polyurethane resin, plywood, plastic found objects including beads, buttons, poker chips, badminton birdies, ping pong balls, rhinestones, coins, dice, plastic figurines, combs and miniature pinball games. (See previous two pictures for the entire fish and other details.)

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Instant family, posted earlier: