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California artist Kathryn Spence looks to the detritus of our lives for
her source materials. She has rendered pigeons out of newspapers and shaped
them with tiny wires and bits of string, crafting the pigeons from the very
materials in which these city dwellers spend their lives. Spence's monumental
mud animals are simultaneously tender and haunting. By covering pastel stuffed
animals in old bathrobes and then building them up from mud, Spence suggests
there is life and memory in the materials that become discards. References
to homelessness and powerlessness can be read in her nostalgic yet powerful
works. Spence's exhibition filled half of the main gallery, and she was
a visiting artist at the Kemper Museum. |
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