After Slash I checked out another exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey.The artist's huge, over-sized human figures were interesting, but basically they didn't do it for me. I enjoyed the texture of her surfaces, and some of the sloppy cartoonish quality of the images, but I didn't care for her palette and generally didn't feel moved or engaged in any of the pieces.
The copy for the exhibition states: "This exhibition features the artist's colossal clay figures, sculptures, ceramic plates as well as a selection of her paintings and works on paper. Best known for her gigantic figures of domineering men and over-wrought women, Frey's work not only reveals her early involvement in painting via the dynamic color glazes on the surfaces of these sculptures, but perceptive observations of gender and power issues in mid-twentieth century America"
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