Sideshow
Barbara Siegel

October 11 - November 4, 2006

Sideshow is an exhibition of biographical works inspired by the unique and creative lives of five unusual individuals and the honkey-tonk magic of Coney Island. As art historian and curator Kristen

Frederickson writes about Siegel's work: “Siegel delves into the realm of memorialization and honoring in her work. Through a combination of found and reconstructed materials, some organ- ic and some manmade, some transitory and some with an air of timelessness, she reaches into the personal history of extraordinary people and their legacies. Siegel is inspired by the experiences and legacies of carnival performers and bereaved widows, as well as by the daily significance of all the people who surround us and whose histories and achievements remain unknown. Influenced by such disparate artists as Eva Hesse and Marsden Hartley, she recreates a tapestry of details, repeated and recontextualized and in doing so maps a charted territory of the individ- ual whose significance lies in collaboration and social context.”

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