Nancy Davidson
Excess, positive exaggeration, eroticism, hyperbole, transgression
are what the work is about. Like a clown at the carnival, Davidson presents
the audience with balloons large enough to fulfill our childhood fantasies
for the biggest one. Each balloon is dressed in a tutu with fetishistic
straps that bifurcate it into the two halves of a grotesquely fat derriere
floating, lighter than air, up to the ceiling where it "moons" the spectator.
About the Artist:
Nancy Davidson was born in Chicago in 1943. She received her
B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an M.A. from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include "No End to
Her," Richard Anderson Gallery, NYC; "Maux faux," Ronald Feldman Gallery,
NYC; and "Bad Girls West," UCLA, Los Angeles. In 1997 she was the recipient
of the "Anonymous was a Woman Award". She now lives and works in New York
City.
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