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Robert
de Saint Phalle
Mockingbird
Mixed media
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Debra
Baxter
Untitled (neck crack)
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January
2007
Yielded
Debra Baxter
Robert de Saint Phalle
January 5-28, 2007
Opening reception Thursday, January 4, 6-9pm
In
January SOIL presents Yielded, a show of sculptures
and video by Debra Baxter and Robert de Saint Phalle.
Although the artists work with different materials and
processes their recent work shares a similar search
for forms of survival and a preoccupation with ideas
of one’s voice. Debra’s alabaster vocal cords
in positions of speech seek the physical origins of
fleeting emotions. Her work is increasingly about finding
strength in vulnerability, revealing the body as a means
of protection. Robert has also focused on the biology
of sound by giving form to the air-sinus system of a
mockingbird. Perched on an empty self-addressed cardboard
box, the piece finds personal clarity in the essence
of mimicry. Their combined work lays bare the physical
manifestations yielded by their respective search for
self-figuration.
Debra Baxter was born in 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1996.
Robert
de Saint Phalle was born in 1978 outside of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and received his BFA from The Cooper Union,
New York in 2001. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New
York and is an Adjunct Professor at The Cooper Union
Read
Craig Brownson's review of the show in The Stranger
Read Nate Lippens' review of the show in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In the Backspace:
Ben Hirschkoff: Controlled Fire: Variations
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