Mar 15, 2008 – June 1, 2008
Tuesdays–Sundays (noon–5pm)
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls as "mini me"-style stand-ins. Happy childhood memories aside, dolls as subject matter have the potential for a high creep-factor (Chucky, anyone?), a point that clearly did not escape Duncan. Included in the show are works by surrealist photographer Hans Bellmer and art provocateur E.V. Day — both artists use macabre images of dismembered mannequins and mummified Barbies to reveal their alter-egos' darker side.
– Heather Silva