Adrienne Outlaw
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Fecund Series Installation
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Adrienne Outlaw explores the often conflicting debate among science, nature and religion. Exploring a world she sees as beautiful yet dangerous, nourishing yet cruel, Outlaw considers the contradictions that develop as people grapple to balance the dichotomy between emotional and intellectual thought and the resulting bioethical issues in an increasingly technological world.
Outlaw’s work is internationally exhibited, reviewed in critical art magazines and featured in art catalogues and books.
Outlaw frequently guest teaches and lectures at galleries, schools and museums. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MLAS from Vanderbilt University.
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Ma'am, External Side View
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L - Ma’am, External View, 2005
8 ¼” x 8 ¼” x 5 1/8”
Plastic, wax, collagen, feathers, cicada shells, mirror
R - Iris, Internal View, 2002
6” x 6” x 6”
Plastic, paper, metal pins, mirror, velvet
When viewers look inside a funnel they see a reflection of their eye in the mirror of works such as Iris, Ma'am or Hive.
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Iris, Internal View
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Cycle, Internal View
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Fecund Installation
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FECUND SERIES STATEMENT Beauty•Power•Danger•Cruelty
Our instincts/emotions bind us to our primeval past while technology separates us from the more “disdainful” aspects of the natural world. Still, nature demands our respect and admiration as it has evolved ingenious methods of survival such as the porcupine quill, spider web and plant seed.
I manipulate and assemble objects I admire -- cicada shells and sweet gum fruit, porcupine quills and beeswax, puffer fish and horse chestnuts -- into new forms. Careful selection of materials and the laborious attachment methods relate to obsession, protection and unification. The objects I choose once offered protection. Recombined, they speak to the human desire for progress and the possibility of Frankensteinian horrors.
These vulnerable forms require shelter. Acting as both specimen case and incubator, funnels covered with such materials as leather and velvet or wire and wax allow their contents to be viewed but not touched. Viewers become participants when they peer inside a piece and see their reflection.
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R - Hive, 2005 (External View)
5” x 5” x 4”
Plastic, honey, wax, sinew, cicada shells, mirror
To view other works by Adrienne Outlaw, including the Sleep Series, the Piercings Series or her site-specific, community-based artworks, go to www.adrienneoutlaw.com
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Hive, External View
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Above Center -
Cycle, 2005 (Internal View)
4.5" x 4.5" x 4 5/8"
Plastic, wax, magnifying lens, light, copper, leather, sweet gum, cicada shells
Above -
Fecund Series Installation Shot
Dimensions Variable
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