Hurry! If you haven’t seen Frye Art Museum’s current exhibit of an amazing multi-media show by Patricia Piccinini, you have exactly five days to go check it out.
I heard about the show when it opened, but only got to see it for the first time in December. Then, it was so good I had to go again, a week later. The show, titled “hug”, is about (among other things) environment, prejudice, perception and leather fetishism (I think. Okay, maybe not. But those leather upholstered pedestals are designed and crafted well enough to make me develop a case). The details, imagination it must have taken to conceive these phantom creatures, and our own imagination they provoke, are mesmerizing to say the least.
They also have a nice retrospect of Henry/Frye (both prominent art collectors in the turn of last century) collections together, which provides a nice respite from the somewhat paranoia-inducing Piccinini show. Best of all, Frye is always free, so you don’t have any excuse to miss this.
Additionally, a group show at Vermillion Gallery of some up and coming local and national artists, and a local ceramic artist Ben Waterman’s massive installation “Reckoning of a Mile” at Drop City Gallery are both running through the end of the month, and worth checking out. -AM
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