Residency dates: 9/22/08 -10/17/08Lecture: Tuesday, 9/30, noon University Galleries
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Blo-No Visiting Knitting Goddess: Kimberley Hart
Residency dates: 9/22/08 -10/17/08Lecture: Tuesday, 9/30, noon University Galleries
Kimberley Hart is a sculptor and installation artist whose work utilizes an alter ego to address issues of identity and gender expectations. This persona, a super frilly-missy, occupies an imaginary world where she eludes cultural conventions and delves into domains traditionally belonging to boys. In a review of Hart's 2007 Mixed Greens exhibition, Open Season, Anthony Veneditto called Hart's alter ego “a sequin clad warrior princess who could very well be the love child of Ted Nugent and Martha Stewart.” Ariella Budick at Newsday says of Hart's persona and endeavors, (the alter ego is a) “girly-girl with a predilection for pom-poms and glitter, who enjoys hunting, fishing and killing. Hart and her imaginary other are responsible for clever and sophisticated installations that meld hyper-feminine and macho stereotypes into a darkly funny mélange.”
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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