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21 hours agoIn Maureen McCabe's Art, the Medium Is the Message
Maureen McCabe uses mixed-media installations and collages to examine mysticism, fate, and American supernatural traditions in a Benton Museum retrospective.
In Kris Kuksi's "Leda and the Swan," the mythical woman sits nude and slightly less voluptuous than Rubens and Cézanne's versions of her. In this mixed-media assemblage, the mother of Helen of Troy is surrounded by cities that literally rise above her and more that are flipped upside down. Train tracks crumble. Armies go to battle. Severed heads hang from the trees that loom over the scenes.