leigh pennebaker uses jagged industrial fencing and rebar to make a provocative statement about entrapment and feminine beauty. she cuts, ties, knots, weaves and twists the wire, honoring women’s long history of crafting and domestic art as she makes art.
in her artist statement, pennebaker mentions that she channels the spirits of southern belles, divas, vixens and ingenues through her dimensional caricatures. you will see that this is true when you visit her website, where there is plenty to ogle, including life sized couture sculpts, ‘miss thang’ wire faces and forty wire couture sculptures with names like lola, ginger, zsa zsa and norma. bring on the divas!
these figures are full of movement. they sway, shimmy and sashay. they dance. into your line of vision. into your head. into your heart.
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