Introduction to Catalogue<\/p>\n
\u201cVirtual Fantasy\u201d By Mark Blickley<\/p>\n
2012<\/p>\n
I did not hesitate to accept Melissa Wolf\u2019s offer to jury this show\u2026. When she told me the title of this exhibit, \u201cVirtual Fantasy,\u201d I clearly understood what virtual meant. I wasn\u2019t so clear about what constitutes fantasy, so I researched the word until I uncovered a conceit that felt comfortable. According to aphorist Mason Cooley, \u201cFantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.\u201d\u2026.The diversity of the work, in both form and content, excited me. When viewing a group show I appreciate the eclectic and enjoyed the humor as well as the seriousness of the selected artists. \u00a0While some of the pieces in this show are narrative and some are conceptual, all exude an aggressive shove, a seductive invitation, or a treacherous undertow that pulls one into the artist\u2019s imaginative inner world of desire.<\/p>\n
The following paragraphs are the fantasies that each of the artists in this show invoked within me:<\/p>\n
\u2026.Helle Rask Crawford\u2019s sculpture, \u201cBeetle Surfer,\u201d depicts a frightening \u00a0joyride atop a sacred scarab (beetle).\u00a0 The Latin word for beetle is coleoptera and the child who stands atop of it certainly looks as if he could have been bronze casted during Cleopatra\u2019s reign. \u00a0A beetle\u2019s exoskeleton is made up of plates and many beetle species prey on mammals. This young surfer, who is deluded with the notion that he is in control, is fittingly poised upon a bronze plate ignorantly pointing to his final destination as a scarab\u2019s supper. Humankind always deludes itself that they can control insect pestilence; \u00a0beetles make up nearly fifty percent of all insects\u2026..<\/p>\n
And what fantasies do you see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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