With a commitment to creating and curating surprising forms of art, Daniel “Attaboy” Seifert has forged a varied career often fusing subversion with disconcerting whimsy.

Atta’s recent work features sculptural, often interactive painted works on multiple levels of layered wood, which investigate themes of death, decomposition and rebirth.

Undergrowth, the exhibition at Gallery 30 South from which this piece originates, developed as a form of self-therapy. Begun after the deaths of his older brother and grandfather, Seifert channeled and referenced themes which over-populated his grandmother’s ceramics and needle-points (albeit with a much darker, personal take) into a theme that builds on decay. The resulting work became a comfort. Attaboy has since encouraged a worldwide “Game of Shrooms,” through which artists produce mushroom-themed artworks and leave them in public locations.

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