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Art
Good Doll Bad Doll

When

Mar 15, 2008 – June 1, 2008

Tuesdays–Sundays (noon–5pm)

Where
Armory Center for the Arts ( 145 N. Raymond Ave, 626.792.5101)
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.armoryarts.org/index.html
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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