Joey Skaggs' Works in Social Injustice
Grotesque Statues of Liberty
On the 4th of July, 1969, to protest the war in Vietnam, Skaggs erected four obscenely grotesque sculptures of the Statue of Liberty at Cooper Square in the East Village of New York. They were life size mannequins painted green and wrapped in barbed wire. One was in a wheelchair. Several were holding dismembered baby doll bodies instead of torches.
Vietnamese Christmas Nativity Burning
On Christmas Day, Joey Skaggs and friends constructed a life size Vietnamese Nativity scene in New York's Central Park and, dressed as American soldiers with plastic and wooden weapons, attempted to burn it to the ground to protest the war in Vietnam.