PRESS RELEASE
August, 2006
For Immediate Release
Image: Second Skin, 1999, latex & pins
Image: Mudflap Girl Knocked Up, 2006, brass
Image: Knockers, 2006, rubber
Ellen Wetmore: Close to Naked
September 5-October 7, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, September 8, 5-8 PM
Closing Reception: Friday, October 6, 5-8 PM
Boston Sculptors Gallery is pleased to present artist Ellen Wetmore's second solo exhibition Close to Naked.
This September the gallery will be the perfect venue for some colossal navel-gazing as Wetmore enters the home stretch of her first pregnancy. Fascinated by pregnancy as a surreal physical transformation, she takes the viewer on a comprehensive anatomical tour, from tit to toe. Pieces like the colorful rubber Boob Balls catalog her 25 lb. expansion, distributed, as she puts it, "roughly between each breast." For Split, a life-sized figure of the artist tries to pull herself up through the floor, only to face her own legs dangling from the ceiling. This cartoon image was inspired by "my initial ambivalence about starting a family," says Wetmore. "I felt like I had two brains - one in my head and the other in my uterus." Second Skin is a cast of the entire surface of her skin, made of pink latex and pinned together like a crazy quilt.
Wetmore works with sculpture, video, sound art, and interactive environments. Her work has been exhibited at the Attleboro Arts Museum, Fitchburg State College, the Boston Mills Gallery and The Duxbury Art Complex Museum. She is one half of a two-person show at the Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery during the month of October 2006. She will also be included in an exhibition of the Boston Sculptors at the Fitchburg Art Museum from October 2006 to January 2007. Wetmore is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work can be found online at www.ellenwetmore.iwarp.com
Gallery Hours: Boston Sculptors Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 12pm – 6pm.
Special Hours for SOWA Open Studios: September 16 & 17, 11am-6pm.
Contact Information:
Gallery Director Jean Mineo at 617-482-778 or director@bostonsculptors.com
Ellen Wetmore at 978-353-7705 or ellenwetmore@yahoo.com
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