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Sep
15
2016

Anonymous Women by Patty Carroll

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When: Thursday, September 15, 2016
10:00 AM - 10:00 PM CT

Where: Norris University Center, Dittmar Gallery, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free

Contact: Debra Blade   (847) 491-2348

Group: Dittmar Memorial Gallery

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

Anonymous Women is about becoming the dwelling itself: experiencing joys and terrors of domesticity; challenging the idea of home and identity. The series is a commentary on obsessive collecting, accumulating, designing and decorating, inviting hilarity and pathos about our relationship with “things.”
“Staying home” is a state that some women also aspire to as a place of power, while others abhor because of its prison-like atmosphere. The worlds within Anonymous Women debunk, critique and satirize suburban myths of claustrophobic perfection, in the hopes of bringing humor to pathos.
In all cases, women need “A room of their own.”
The series is also a small tribute to Scarlett O’Hara, who, undaunted by wars, pulled down her drapery to fashion a beautiful gown, and would do anything to keep her home, Tara.

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