The Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies is at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine. The exhibition will be up May 14 through June 12. *UPDATE: Wowza! Check out the great review of my work in the Portland Press Herald! (click here)* AND check out the brand new sparkly MOCS website: www.obeasts.org (site designed [...]
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obeasts @ ICA Portland
Posted in installations, sculpture, spring 11, video, tagged art, art installation, artist, fat, fat women, fatness, fiction, herrick, installation art, meca, moo moo, museum for obeast conservation studies, muumuu, obeast, obese, obesity, rachel herrick, raleigh, science museum, stigma on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
museum for obeast conservation studies
Posted in installations, photos, sculpture, summer 10, tagged archaeology, art, artifacts, artist, chubby, fat, fatness, fiction, found object art, herrick, identity art, installation, installation art, maine, maine college of art, meca, museum, muu muu, muumuu, nourish, obeast, obeasts, obese, obesity, political art, portland, portland maine, rachel herrick, raleigh on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies was founded in 2010 as an organization for the historical and scientific study of the endangered North American Obeast. Given their reclusive natures and dwindling numbers, little is known about this genus of bipedal marsupials, which was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. This exhibition was hosted [...]
there, there: an installation (part 1)
Posted in inspirations, installations, photos, spring 10, thoughts & feelings, tagged afghan, antfarm, art, artist, comfort, curtains, dad, death, domesticity, earring, fabric, father, fiction, grief, Hiroshima Mon Amour, installation art, lies, memory, mourn, nostalgia, raleigh, vintage on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m working on my There, there installation for Antfarm. It’ll be up for just the one evening (First Friday, March 5), which is both exciting in its ephemerality and a little sad for all the work that goes into it. There, there started with an idea, well, really it was a feeling. The man who [...]
