Comments (0) Alexandra Penney at Haas & Fuchs
This past weekend Hass & Fuchs hosted the opening of new work by a good friend of mine Alexandra Penney.
Her series of plastic blow-up dolls push us into a plane of discomfort. Evocative, disturbing, and absolutely fabulous. The photographs force the viewer to reexamine the very nature of beauty.
“My artwork comments on the insatiable consumerism, greed, dishonesty, and the deformed and warped values of our time. The dolls, with their gaping mouths, are symbols or ciphers that provide a visual scaffolding for social observation. Nothing in the pictures is genuine—unless you consider plastic ‘genuine.’”
You can view the series here. Or, read about the artists harrowing reinvention after loosing her life savings in the Madoff scandal in her new book, The Bag Lady Papers: The Priceless Experience of Losing it All.
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