art walk : )

I visited the Art Walk at the Moose Exchange on Thursday night. Walking through the two floors, I found many artists with interesting and provoking works. Among some of my favorites were a wire sculpture of nature-man John Muir, silkscreen teeshirts by inkfinger, a painting of a giraffe's skeleton, as well as the two pictures i've included of the dress & the frankendolls.

The painting on the right stood out to me because of the discomfort it caused my friends. The two other girls I brought along with me pointed this piece out to me, and were disgusted by it, as if it actually was parts of a baby stuck to parts of a really small lady. I thought that despite their deviant appearance, they were standing together, holding eachother lovingly. One could go so far as to say its romantic. : )

I spoke with the artist who created the dress in the picture on the left. Unfortunately, I've since lost her card & the flier she gave me for her show at the end of March. She had many different prints on cotton, and a few different exmples of dresses she had hand printed & sewn. This particular dress was the first dress that she ever made, and she said that she was charging less money for this piece. She said that there are minor imperfections in the stitching and printing becuse she was relativiely unfamiliar with the process. I liked thatall of the fabrics and dresses were entirely hand designed by the artist.