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Seattle P.I.
FINE ARTS
By Regina Hackett
Friday, April 23, 2004
Priceless Works gallery lives up to its name with this
month's two-artist exhibit
In less than a year, operating out of a down-an-alley
gallery in Fremont, Regan Peck's Priceless Works has become
indispensable. It's where you go to see art on the margins
that's better than most of what passes for mainstream in
Seattle.
This month is especially good: Francesca Berrini's deranged
map collages and Mandy Greer's lavish installation, "The
Wolf Prince and the Parrot Princess."
I don't like maps. They don't work for me. Maybe because
Berrini's maps don't work for anybody, they come as a
relief. To make them, she cuts real maps into tiny squares
and rearranges their contents into the suggestion of places
that don't exist but easily could.
There are deserts swelling to a lushly brown convexity that
no one can be lost in, and lakes of deep blue that will
never reflect moonlight. Stripped of their ordinary code,
these maps are lovely, dense and deeply eccentric.
The head of Greer's wolf prince hangs on the wall, drooling
unraveling red lace. He wears the frill from grandma's dress
as a neck ruffle, a fine touch he cannot see as he is blind,
with coarse black stitching around his battered snout.
Welcome to Greer's fairy tale, where bad taste acquires a
magically elegant charge. Both the pompom chandelier and the
rag rug beneath it are radiant, while the parrot princess in
sequins, plaids and green leather, looks ready for the
runway life.
Through May 2 at Priceless Works, 619 N. 35th St.,
info@pricelessworksgallery.com.
Hours: Thursdays-Sundays,
noon-6 p.m.
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