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 [...]
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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 »
nourish videos
Posted in fall 09, video, tagged dairy, drip, farmer, funnel, mason jar, milk, nourish, red cross, splash, tomato, video on December 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A few videos of the Nourish installation and details of the milk dripping. (Those of you who are my friends on facebook will find these redundant.) This installation was up for 48 hours. It took 20 hours to install and only 2.5 to uninstall and repaint the room. About 10 people saw it finished, [...]
nourish
Posted in fall 09, installations, sculpture, tomatoes, tagged art, boxes, cardboard, dairy, farmer, funnel, garbage, mason jar, milk, nourish, rachel herrick, raleigh, red cross, tomato on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I just finished installing my end-of-semester exhibit, which I titled ‘Nourish’. There are three components in the installation: a heap of wet sagging cardboard tomato boxes, a red cross made of 100 jars of tomatoes, and a floor sculpture of 30 old milk funnels with a suspended dripping jug of milk. Each element is intended [...]
