BIG BODY PLAY uses humor and imagination to explore the banality of the everyday. Artists embrace playful colors and materials, on plush, oversized forms to celebrate boredom, experimentation, and absurdity. Engaging themes of the body, pop culture, nostalgia, and domesticity, this collection of soft sculptures highlights the fascination these artists have with their materials and their love of “playing” in the studio. Utilizing current material culture as inspiration, these objects tell personal narratives, make punny jokes, and address our need for recreation and distraction.
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Installation of BIG BODY PLAY at Fine Arts Center Sheffield Wood Gallery. Photography by Jessica Swank. Photo courtesy Tiger Strike Asteroid.
Isabella Marie Garcia visits the studio of Smita Sen to discuss new work that is exploring the heart, emotions in response to the evolution of a place, and performance between Miami and New York City.
Thalia Butts reviews the extravagant portrayals and traditions of HBCU marching bands found in Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands, The HBCU Marching Band Series at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.
In July’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Leo Shannon writes on the flood-salvaged recordings of Morgan Sexton, the East Kentucky banjo legend.
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