In the Lives of Dolls - Opening Reception March 8
Wynwood Art District Miami Second Saturday Gallery Walk.
Group Exhibition Featuring: Aliza Augustine, Maria de la Vega, Ursula Sokolowska, Star27, and Jennifer Tyler.

When: Saturday March 8 from 7 to 10:30PM
Where: Undercurrent Arts, 2563 N. Miami Ave. Miami, FL 33127
More Info: 305-571-9574 - marglaw@undercurrentarts.com
Website: www.undercurrentarts.com
Undercurrent Arts presents: In the Lives of Dolls.
This group exhibition features five American and international artists who use dolls and mannequins as subject matter in their paintings and photographs. In their artwork, dolls reflect reality, but it also appears as if reality is imposed upon these seemingly innocent and perfect beings. Dolls have been known to exist since at least the time of Greeks and Romans. They have been religious symbols or children’s toys, and the most human-like have traditionally been the most coveted. They can be both mesmerizing in their perfection and eerie in the vacancy of their stare. It is for this reason that dolls are perfect tools of artistic expression. They so easily inspire us to imagine our greatest fantasies or our worst nightmares. Because they allow us a certain degree of objectivity at being human, they can take us to the depths of self-exploration or the height of social critique.
Aliza Augustine

“My current work is a series of large digital photographs called Playing Grown Up. Using miniature dolls and sets placed on fairy tale backdrops I create narratives drawn on personal history and social/political commentary. The contradiction of good and evil inherent in fairy tales make a perfect backdrop for the narratives that are not what they seem at first glance." Aliza Augustine lives in works in West New York, NJ.
Maria de la Vega

"Voyeur...a private game becoming in my own world. The eye of pleasure, the doll in me." Maria de la Vega lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ursula Sokolowska

“My photographs are projection based installations. The models are mannequins and their faces are projections. The faces of the children are slides that my father took of me when he was still involved in my life. My goal is to reconstruct my own childhood, empowering the past for better or for worse. The result is a troubling recreation of events that may seem disturbing but are far less in context to the real events that transpired.” Ursula Sokolowska was born in Krakow Poland and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Star27

“The world is filled with bright lights to dazzle the eyes, and fast ways to thrill the senses. My work reflects on the examples I have seen of the casualties of this twisted consumerism based society we live in today. Those who stray into self-destruction seeking basic needs: love, acceptance, and happiness, and find it in dangerous places. I try to use my medium to undermine preconceptions and expose a society that praises wealth, possessions, and its own predetermined standards of beauty, at any cost.” Star27 works and lives on the west coast of Florida.
Jennifer Tyler

“The fusion of organic and artificial, nature and technology, in all their forms, have always fascinated and inspired me. I have engulfed vintage dolls from my childhood into situations beyond they’re intention to create such an effect. Dolls (artificial) meet life (organic) is a series I have created to push the ideas of what should and shouldn’t be.” Jennifer Tyler currently lives and works in Indian Harbor Beach, FL.
In the Lives of Dolls - Exhibition runs March 8 to April 5, 2008
For further information contact:
Margaret Kosyk at 305-571-9574 or marglaw@undercurrentarts.com
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