|
Gallery |
| |
 |
|
 |
Saya Woolfalk:
No
Place:
Wonders from that World
Chicago
Zg Gallery
Now through February 10
Audrey M. Mast |
|
Inspired by a year in Brazil,
Saya Woolfalk's new work is a deceptively cute, motley investigation
of otherness. The exhibition's title references Renaissance
philosopher Sir Thomas More's Utopia, but Woolfalk's
interpretation of "no place" is a postcolonial Candy Land populated
with fuzzily fleeced and tropical calico-print creatures. Alongside
this installation, a single-channel video features two brightly clad
dancers in a bizarre, ritualistic duet to what sounds like a bossa
nova-spiked Nintendo tune. Her works on paper, particularly the
Seven Wonders series, are dreamy, symbol-laden landscapes that
imagine an eroticized alternate world of fertility temples and
colossal banana-draped monuments, set against backdrops of rainbows
and puffy clouds. (AMM) |
| |
|
Art Fairs
International,
May / June, 2005, cover illustration & pgs. 66
- 67 |
|
 |
| |
|
 |
| |
|
New City,
May 6, 2004
 |
| |
New City,
March 18, 2004 |
|
 |
| |
|
The Scarsdale Inquirer, March 12,
2004, pg. 15 |
|
 |
| |
|
Chicago Tribune, March 12, 2004,
no. 72, sec. 7, pg. 25 |
|
 |
|