BEAUTY: Sculpture--Rhonda Gushee

The intriguing figurative mixed media work of Rhonda Gushee uses children's plush toys along with raku pieces and found objects to, as Gushee herself puts it, "highlight contradictions such as humor and fear, beauty and decay, the antique and contemporary."

Top to bottom: Disjoined; Dolls I and II; Foxboy; Friends Forever; Next Life Owl Family; Skirt; The Meanest Thing

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