CCS Bard Hessel Museum
Bard College
845.758.7598
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Keith Edmier, Beverly Edmier
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Oct 20, 2007 – Feb 3, 2008
Wednesdays–Sundays (1–5pm)
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Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality, making them a cathartic joy to behold. Bard College's Hessel Museum hosts the first retrospective of Edmier's haute kitsch, including a new work, Bremen Towne — a full-scale replica of the artist's childhood home, a '70s suburban ranch house replete with wood-grain Formica and yellow linoleum. Exotic flowers, pop icons, and family members play important roles in Edmier's work, which is rife with Freudian overtones. In a remarkable collaboration with Farah Fawcett, Edmier chiseled the '70s sex symbol in white marble, as Fawcett molded a reclining Edmier in bronze.
