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Flavorpill
October 5-12, 2004

"Alexis Weidig: Athenaia"

Being American is always a hybrid experience, even for those born here. And for those who immigrate here from other countries, that hybridity is only intensified and expanded. Rife with details and materials that possess both personal and broader cultural implications, Alexis Weidig's site-specific installations and mixed-media assemblages take her immigrant parents' accumulation of objects and images to the extreme. Using furniture, lamps, stuffed birds, costume gems, gold leaf, and sundry other craft-based materials, she constructs opalescent, glittering monuments to the romance of the "old country." (SND).

by Shana Nys Dambrot