Series:

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

14 total works

Cover of Videofreex

Cover of Along His Own Lines

Cover of Jervis McEntee

Cover of Bradley Walker Tomlin

Cover of Dick Polich

Dick Polich

by Daniel Belasco, Dick Polich, and Sara J. Pasti

Published 27 September 2014

Cover of On the Street and in the Studio

Cover of Andrew Lyght

Cover of Mary Reid Kelley

Cover of Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Art

Cover of Intimately Unfamiliar

Intimately Unfamiliar

by Sara J. Pasti

Published 15 March 2017

Cover of The Floating World

Cover of In/Animate

Cover of Sara Greenberger Rafferty
The boxing term "gloves off"—frequently used as a metaphor to characterize brutal political campaigns and post-9/11 military interrogation—aptly describes the subtle aggressions in American popular culture that Sara Greenberger Rafferty lays bare. Blurring the lines between two and three dimensions, Rafferty attaches her wall-mounted works using custom-painted screws that break up the images. She also deploys cracked paint resembling viscous bodily fluids, further "wounding" the objects. Over the past decade, Rafferty has referenced the language, gestures, and props associated with stand-up comedy. This exhibition includes a new large-scale work entitled "Jokes on You," featuring images of ephemera from the collections of the National Museum of American History, which was part of Rafferty's study during her Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Index cards from the Phyllis Diller "Gag File," scanned and recontextualized by Rafferty, underscore the trauma associated with cultural mores that assert control over women's bodies, such as marriage and consumerism.

Cover of Text/ures of Iraq

Text/ures of Iraq

by Sara J. Pasti

Published 15 March 2017