New Art Show Features Whimsical Photographs

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Published May 31, 2007 at 10:30 AM PDT

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Brazilian artist Vik Muniz joins us to talk about his critically acclaimed, whimsical photographs. An exhibit of his work titled Vik Muniz: Reflex opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in

Alison St John (Guest Host): Looking at the art work of Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is always more than one experience. There is the image that you see immediately and then there is a twist, the joke, the double -take that draws you in and makes you smile, or gasp or think a little deeper. Muniz works with unlikely materials including peanut butter and jelly, cotton wool, chocolate and trash. An exhibition of his work called

Vik Muniz: Reflex opens at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla this weekend and runs through September 2nd at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla.

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Vik Muniz, a New York based artist from Brazil. A show of his work called Vik Muniz: Reflex opens this weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla.