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Seth Jenkins grabs a black-faced Suffolk sheep around the neck and with Billie Fowler nudging from behind, they lead the nearly 200-lb animal onto a plywood board. The friends maneuver the ewe onto her rear haunches, exposing her belly, and with Jenkins wedging the furry animal between his knees, Fowler hands him a pair of electric shears...
...Fairey’s works—a painting entitled “The Rose Girl”—will remain at its present location on a wall next to The Tannery, but the other, which was located on the plywood face of a construction site, has been removed...
Davis’s “Appleknockers” sits in the middle of a couch arrangement ready for contemplation. “I found a piece of plywood with enormously huge knots, and I thought they were really funny,” she says. “I thought they looked like huge breasts and huge cartoon eyes.” Davis, who teaches at both Bard College and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, moved forward with the humorous sculpture by contemplating how one contextualizes imagery. “Whatever frame you use changes the image...
Davis’s piece of plywood is bordered by mahogany and covered with red glass to elevate the value of the imagery. Davis says that this frame is meant to comment on conformity within society. “Consumer culture has people so framed because the particular thing we want is first made but then sold to us in a particular context—a concept then chosen by the company...
...breaking off and flying away all night. Then the glass partition on the other side shattered as well. Watching that metal frame pound against the wall, knowing it could break free and smash into the windows, forced us to retreat. I'm hiding in the kitchen behind sheets of plywood my father attached to the bar. My parents are sleeping here on the floor. Ian, my husband, is guarding the closet, behind more plywood, which separates us from the floor-to-ceiling windows that run the length of the apartment. It's been a frightening night...