Iceberger Gallery
3150 18th St. #109
415.225.8392
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Jennifer Merrill, Stacked Brain and Profile (detail), Courtesy the artist
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Opens Saturday July 12, 2008 (6–8pm)
July 12, 2008 – Aug 1, 2008
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Note: The gallery is open by appointment only. Please call 415.225.8392.
Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting couple in The Argument gets tangled in a mess of blood-red schematic arrows issuing from their mouths. In Hearing, a listener is pierced by similar arrows, and cries softly. Merrill references fellow paper-cutter Eva Rothschild in Is Something Wrong Dear?, substituting a lanyard of blue ribbons for the brain's synapses — but where Rothschild uses paper sculpture to illustrate static states, Merrill uses quilling to critique an institution that treats all passion as illness.
