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Starting Small
My
latest project is mailbox art, and all the neighbors still speaking to
us say it’s awesome. The eyes light up: move your mouse across thepicture
to see it at night.
This is the maquette for a future art car. You should have seen the one
that got away!
I’ve had lots of positive reviews of both my visual art and my writing
this summer, and the
New England Sculptors Association recently invited me to join. More
great feedback on the Universal Application too. It’s all very exciting.
I took a welding and forging class at MassArt, with instructor Reid Drum,
and I can’t wait to incorporate more metal into my work. And the Middlesex
Beat is doing a profile on me in their November issue, written by Lowell
fiber artist and author Maxine Farkas. Thank you everyone! Next project
for me: adding tail fins to an ’89 Toyota Corolla.
Coming Up This Fall
September 18:
Secrets of a Silent Celebrity A lecture on the history, sociology and
art of Barbie by Gwendolyn Holbrow to the American
Association of University Women in Bedford, MA. This lecture is free
and open to the public, and I’ll post the details when I have them. At
a certain level of stardom, one name is enough. Think Marilyn, Elvis,
Cher, Madonna, Britney… but there’s another, more widely recognized than
all the rest, even though her checkered past was never splashed across
the tabloids: Barbie®. Perhaps the most popular toy of all time, Barbie®
has moved beyond the status of mere plaything to become a cultural icon,
loved and hated by millions. Where did she come from? What is the source
of her power and popularity? What meanings and messages does she carry
into the 21st century? Artist and author Gwendolyn Holbrow answers these
questions, and others you’ve never even thought to ask, in Who Is Barbie®?,
a lecture on the history, art and meaning of the Barbie® doll.
About the Speaker
Gwendolyn Holbrow uses sculpture and other media to explore group membership
and the construction of personal and cultural identity. She frequently
incorporates and reinterprets Barbie® in her work, and also has an unhealthy
interest in garden gnomes and Elvis. She writes about the visual arts
for artsMedia and the Middlesex Beat and teaches at the Danforth Museum
Art School. For more information, please visit her website at http://gwendolynholbrow.com.
October 15-November 14: Fiber Arts Invitational
A
floor loom will be the foundation of my fiber-related installation at
the Mazmanian
Gallery at Framingham State College. The reception is 5-7:30 pm on
Tuesday, October 15.
October 19-20: Open Studio
I will take part again this year in the Middlesex Beat’s Open Studios,
from 10 am to 3pm both days. I hope you can stop by my studio in the white
barn behind 65 Gates Street in Framingham. In addition to my own work,
the fiber art of Catherine
LeBlanc will be on display.
November 5-30: Spectral Works
I’m excited about this three-person show at the Cambridge Art Association’s
University Place Gallery, with Cindy Crossley and Suzanne Gainer. I will
show a number of Barbie pieces. Reception on Friday, November 8, 6-8 pm.
See the invitation below.
Updated September 15, 2002
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