Insects are common all over the world and many collectors admire the unique beauty of each species but here at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Wisconsin-based installation artist and educator Jennifer Angus takes another approach. In her exhibition,
All Creatures Great and Small she utilizes 3,500 brightly colored insects pinned directly to the wall to create patterns of their own. Drawing on Victorian Age fascination with exploration and scientific discovery and her own interest in pattern and textiles, Jennifer has made a large scale installation with complementary small-scale dollhouses covered in beeswax which are home to anthropomorphizing insects that provoke the viewer to think about our relationship to the larger eco-system. On view through September 11, 2011.
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