For Her Latest Immersive Installation, CJ Hendry Looked to the Balloon Sculptures of Jeff Koons

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The morning before the public debut of CJ Hendry’s newest art installation, “Keff Joons,” a woman was trying to decide whether to traverse to the highest point of the giant sculpture. “I’m going into the yellow fruit loop,” she finally decided, eyeing a lower level of the immersive exhibition, a colorful jumble of inflated balloon-like structures. “That’s always the surprise, to see it interacted with,” Hendry says of the final element of her exhibitions: audience participation. “So it’s really nice to see people jumping on it and climbing atop it.” Known for creating large-scale exhibitions that utilize unexpected materials, Hendry’s latest was inspired by iconic pop artist Jeff Koons‘ giant balloon dog sculptures. “I was trying to make a balloon dog and just couldn’t,” Hendry says. “And then I made these random knots. I’m like, ‘oh yeah, this works.’ And then I just wanted to keep playing with that idea.” Visitors to the exhibition, located in a warehouse space in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood and open through April 20, are given a pair of orange sticky socks to climb into the sculpture; the experience is akin to a grown-up bounce house meets whimsical playground structure. “What I always found really striking about Jeff Koons’ big

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