So there's a rather strange exhibit at the Art Museum currently featuring Bay Area artist Laurie Long (feb. 5, 2005 to jun. 5, 2005) When I first saw it advertised I immediately thought of making BobbiLynn go, since she's the ultimate Nancy Drew fan, but we never managed to coordinate going over her Spring Break. Luckily Julia remembered that I wanted to see it and, since she's much better at following through to actually doing instead of just coming up with the ideas (a weakness of mine), she made sure we actually met up and saw it today. Here's the description:
Girl Power! Laurie Long presents the work of Bay Area artist Laurie Long, whose enchanting art fuses together elements of humor, gender identity, and pop culture. Long's work investigates serious issues—regarding the construction of female identity, and the implications of female performance within societal codes—in a lighthearted and easily accessible manner. While her work has been displayed both nationally and internationally in major venues, never before have her series been assembled in a complete survey exhibition. This exhibition will feature work from a number of series including, Becoming Nancy Drew in which she physically transformed herself into the famous girl sleuth from children’s literature and placed herself in photographic tableaux based on engravings from the books; Dating Surveillance Project, where Long wore a coat rigged with a concealed miniature video camera and microphone to record her dates; and The Secret History of Goddess Sites, which documents places in Europe where female deities were worshipped.
It was also fun to stop by Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection (nov. 20, 2004 to jul. 9, 2006) where we could visit the furniture-eating couch we all love so much.
They were setting up for Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design (mar. 6, 2005 to jul. 10, 2005) which looks like it will be quite interesting as well.
Posted by Emily at March 3, 2005 04:00 PM