Dodd Galleries continues their online summer programming with Makeover Kingdoman exhibition by MFA alumna Cobra McVey
The works in Makeover Kingdom, built out of various plastics and throw-away things, are made distinct by McVey’s humorous and outlandish accoutrements. Two buck “teeth” are added to the pink puffed lips of the High Priest. Fake bejeweled nails jut out of the Queen. A shiny blue eye patch adorns the Lord of War. She essentially gives these items makeovers, refashioning them all at once into glamorous and sinister stuff. She states, “I want each assemblages to be simultaneously adorable and vulgar, humorous and pathetic, child-appropriate and obscene.” Whereas I left Target defeated, McVey would have seen art — more plastic crap to transform into magical dark beings.
Costello is among 56 contemporary artists selected by Whitney Museum curators for the eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States.
“Beverly’s Athens” follows Buchanan's life in Athens, situating her expansive practice from this period within the local and lived conditions that shaped it.
Sculpture, like architecture, is an invitation to marvel at shape, scale and human experience.
Kimberly Lyle, assistant professor of sculpture and technology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Lamar Dodd School of Art, makes interactive artwork both by hand and digitally that welcomes audience participation.
James Enos, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and Design, and Annie Simpson, Doctor of Design (DDes) from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, have been collaborating since 2020 on a dialogical practice that examines polycrisis and planetary urban critique. Their shared projects have ranged from passenger-traveler accounts through watersheds of energy transition to fieldwork
