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Metamorphosis is a useful term to describe the humorous, startling, and provocative juxtapositions contained in a number of individual artworks. Some operate as visual puns, such as Bruce Morozko's Board Dog Chasing Tail, in which the fixed board structure becomes animated. Others have a surrealist quality evocative of bad dreams and M.C. Escher drawings. Macabre elements such as bones, a shroud, and an electric chair underscore transformations in Deborah Horrell's Bird's Nest, Linda Kramer's Two Chairs (Rape), and Mark Huff's Pilot. Even figurative sculpture, a most traditional art form, undergoes change as Peter Vandenberge substitutes windows for eyes and a roof for a head in Maid in Holland. Marvin Sweet's Naima suggests the indefinable anatomy of a creature undergoing metamorphosis. Evolutionary form is also implied in Daisy Youngblood's floating cow body and Sergei Isupov's hybridization of man and beast. His perplexity of drawing and form causes a shift in perception and is similar to David Humphrey's morphing of familiar objects into abstract sculpture.
The Mint Museum of Craft + Design is supported by the Annual Fund Drive of the Arts & Science Council - Charlotte/Mecklenburg, Inc.; the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency; the City of Charlotte; and its members.
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