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Sally Davies: Recent Photographs
May 31 - June 24, 2000
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
Photographs by Sally Davies locate us in the realm of science fiction
or perhaps, a particular American Dream. Benign ready-made aliens,
wearing Barbie clothes, have invaded our planet, or more
specifically, The City. They have heard about freedom, capitalism, the
internet, and they want in. They raise families, drink soda, collect
contemporary art, and download porn on their laptops. They live in
'model homes,' the ones we covet in Architectural Digest and Vanity
Fair. They lean their guitars on the exposed brick of Greenwich Village
pads, and relax in Eames Chairs and Le Courbusier loungers while
contemplating their newest acquisitions: a John Currin, a Basquiat, a
Sally Davies. The artist is clearly having a ball, making sets,
structuring narratives, and drawing a bead on upwardly mobile desires.
She has been immersed in alien culture for years, only recently
combining this interest with her history as a Pop influenced painter.
This new work puts her in the realm of Laurie Simmons and Bill Wegman,
with their stock company of costumed players. Sally Davies' constructed
photographs prove one point beautifully; we have seen the enemy and
they are us.
-Stuart Horodner
Director/Curator
Bucknell Art Gallery Bucknell University
