We absorb art in different ways. There’s art that makes you grin, art that makes you gag, art that you meet with a perfectly neutral expression. Then there’s art that slaps you in the face with its sheer loony brilliance. Occupying this last category is Meredith Dittmar, a Portland-based sculptress who works with clay to produce tableaux as wacky and gorgeous as something out of a dream (or nightmare).
Influenced by a childhood of pet pigs, spy games and hay forts combined with a computer science education and a career in interactive design, Dittmar creates her work primarily with Premo polymer clay and wire. In a nutshell, it’s unlike anything we’ve seen before. Read an interview with the artist at Fecal Face, then check out her website. Kinda makes you want to spend an afternoon inside her brain.
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