The Minnesota State Fair is just about a month away, so I thought I'd run some photos I took last year at the Fair's juried art show.
I'm not sure how many state fairs have an art show any more. (Let alone high-quality crop art!)
Clever, clever, clever. Interactive, conceptual, and attractive. If you hadn't guessed, those are dollar bills rolled up and pushed into a wire grid to create the "pixels" of each letter.
I loved this two-headed sock monkey (experiencing an unfortunate meeting with a meat grinder).
In December of last year at the No Coast Craft-o-Rama, I met the artist, Rebecca Yaker, and didn't even realize she had also created the meat grinder monkeys until just now when I looked back through my State Fair photos and recognized her signature style.
There's a secret about this image. Looking at it from a distance, I thought, Oh, that's an interesting photograph, but I wasn't overly impressed. But when I got closer I realized it wasn't a photograph at all, but rather a super-realistic pencil drawing. Millions of tiny little lines. Ouch.
Looking forward to this year's show!
Friday, July 24, 2009
State Fair Art -- Waiting for 2009
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By the time I saw the "Honesty" work, several of the dollar bills had been pilfered - though not as many as you might imagine. Thanks for reminding me of this piece; I thought it was particularly clever, as well, especially given the very public format in which it was hanging.
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