Savannah artist taps into personal anxieties, fears in new show at Laney Contemporary

Walk through the bright green front doors and into the the entryway of Laney Contemporary, housed in a starkly beautiful brutalist building west of downtown Savannah at 1810 Mills B Lane Blvd., and the first thing you’ll see is a skeletal fish that artist Will Penny has mounted to the wall.

Okay, it’s not actually a fish skeleton but, rather, a hacked Big Mouth Billy Bones, the skeletal animatronic cousin of Big Mouth Billy Bass, the singing plastic gag gift from the late '90s/early-2000s that Penny has used in his work before. Meant to mimic the kind of stuffed specimen you might find mounted to a plaque in an angler’s office, both Billys originally included cheeky audio tracks like “Take Me To The River” and “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”

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