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.
Blake Belcher reviews Atlanta-based Bahamian artist Lillian Blades' new work engaging orchids, transplantation, and diaspora at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Amarie Gipson visits mixed-media artist Chayse Sampy in her shared studio in Downtown Houston to discuss living in the South, Afro-surrealism, and the color blue.
Virginia Walcott reviews the Southern traditions, stereotypes, and romanticism found in the assemblages of Cora Nimtz: Unlikely Hunter at The Aquarium Gallery and Studio, New Orleans.
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