Curious and Curiouser
Curious and Curiouser explores the work of three artists, Casey Millard, Wayne White and Sarah Emerson that use elements of “cute” in their work: homey genre scenes, cartoonish characters and drawing book type illustrations. However, the artists in this exhibition use these elements in a subversive and sometimes abject way.
Curious and Curiouser
Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire Galleries
January 21–February 24, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: January 21, 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
ARTIST TALKS:
Wayne White, 5:30 pm, Wednesday, January 26, Basile Auditorium - 2011 Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture
Casey Riordan Millard, 12:00 pm, Thursday, February 10, Basile Auditorium
Sarah Emerson, 5:30 pm, Wednesday, February 23, Basile Auditorium
Casey Riordan Millard has developed a unique character, “Shark Girl”, a young woman who has the body of a girl and the head of shark. Depicting in drawings, ceramics and life-size installations, Shark Girl often laments her lot in life to the point where she is frozen into inactivity.
Wayne White overlays subversive and witty text over mass-distributed genre-scene lithographs.
Sarah Emerson uses animal imagery which eerily looks reminiscent of children’s drawings books. However, the imagery is depicted in a dark and sinister way: wolves fighting over food, skulls incorporated into landscapes or animals lying down that could as easily be dead as sleeping. In addition to several paintings, Emerson will also be making a new large-scale mural painting for the exhibition.
All three artists will also present lectures at Herron that will be free and open to the public.
http://www.herron.iupui.edu/galleries
Wayne White
Casey Millard
Sarah Emerson
