It is starting like this, curiosities by Becca Barnett

Opening: Friday, February 17, 2012
Showing Until: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Please join us for an art opening Friday, February 17th from 6:30-9pm at Rick Rhodes Photography and Imaging as we host It is starting like this, curiosities by Becca Barnet. Most of Becca Barnet's favorite things have been dead for years, or are objects that were once loved and now lost of forgotten. Her artwork draws from the imagined importance of these items, and explores the phenomenon of preservation. Becca's drawings, sculptures, taxidermy, puppets, and sketchbooks explore why humans have the tendency to try to hold on to the fleeting corporeal. Just before graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009 (BFA illustration), Becca attended the Missouri Taxidermy Institute and specializes in taxidermy repair. Some of Becca’s most recent projects include working for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on a number of traveling exhibits, including “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs” where she was a member of the team that created a sixty-foot Mamenchisaurus. She is currently living in Charleston, South Carolina, working for the SC Aquarium on a Madagascar exhibit, opening this May.