MEGHAN O'CONNOR: THE BIG BOAT / November 16-December 30, 2007

“The Big Boat” by Megan O'Connor explores the daily excesses of celebrities such as Kid Rock and Britney Spears as they lounge and cavort in their favorite private clubs. A fascination with celebrities, which in a culture that derides class difference but reveres beauty and youth yet celebrates the mediocrity as well as the inventiveness of is most prevalent cultural icons. O’Connor takes her fascination, bordering on the devotional, and turns it on its head, rendering the gleeful debauches of her heroes in hand made puppets and paintings culled straight from the pop archetypes of press imagery meant to divest a mainstream popularity. Her heroes become pathetic and in this, more human. The Big Boat is both a secret place and everyplace--it's humanity itself.