The final event of the takeover on March 5 will feature some of the founding members of the Guerrilla Girls on stage at the State Theatre on Hennepin Avenue talking about how they've
used fake fur and posters to expose discrimination on the art world and beyond.
Not exact matches
The artist makes drawings from grease paint and fire,
uses edible materials such as butter, chocolate and alcohol to make hilarious and sad installations (beds that wet themselves, pillows that smoke), and handcrafts exquisite reproductions of both animate and inanimate objects (an upended trashcan sewn from felt, a mangy,
fake -
fur fox, a two - story folding chair).
From 1967 he
used overtly man - made materials to make
fake silk worms in brightly - coloured acrylic; an oversized blue spider in fun -
fur (Vedova Blu); a nest of raffia and synthetic
fur; and tools reminiscent of agriculture.
His technique of soaking myriad materials (from canvas to bread rolls) in kaolin, as well as
using naturally white or off - white materials (from raw canvas to
fake fur) is well represented in the exhibition.
For her 2003 solo exhibition «Blank», she made a conceptual link between a flock of black sheep constructed from
fake fur and Pierneef - inspired paintings by
using wool to turn the latter into tapestries.
ABOUT THE GUERRILLA GIRLS: We
use facts, humor and
fake fur to embarrass and transform the powers that be.