OPENING 2000
Laminated Digital Ink Jet Photo
40 x 55"
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 laptaps. 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
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
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