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Victory Hall is an installation I originally presented at Bellwether gallery in the spring of 2005. The installation was comprised of over one hundred wooden rifles, pistols, and sideknives arranged on the wall in a decorative pattern reminiscent of an arms exposition hall. Posed on the floor were a series of five life-size ceramic dolls made in my own image and wearing handsewn uniforms. I created the doll parts at a ceramics atelier in Provence, and worked with a Civil War costume historian to design and sew the uniforms. These "commemorative dolls" are based on obscure citizen soldiers of the American Civil War era, specifically Zouaves and Vivandières.
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Eliza Wilson of the 5th Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
Please click on image again for more detail.
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"New History," Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York,
curated by Tracy Adler; and "The Old,
Weird America: Folk Themes in
Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, curated by Toby Kamps.
Photo credit Bellwether.
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Eliza Wilson of the 5th Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry (detail)
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"New History," Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York,
curated by Tracy Adler; and "The Old,
Weird America: Folk Themes in
Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, curated by Toby Kamps.
Photo credit Bellwether.
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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
Please click on image again for more detail.
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"New History," Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York,
curated by Tracy Adler; and "The Old,
Weird America: Folk Themes in
Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, curated by Toby Kamps.
Photo credit Bellwether.
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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (detail)
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"New History," Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York,
curated by Tracy Adler; and "The Old,
Weird America: Folk Themes in
Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, curated by Toby Kamps.
Photo credit Bellwether.
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Officer of the 5th New York Volunteer
Infantry, Duryée's Zouaves
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
Please click on image again for more detail.
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"The 'F' Word," Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by
Elizabeth Thomas, and in "New History,"
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at
Hunter College, New York, curated by
Tracy Adler; and "The Old, Weird
America: Folk Themes in Contemporary
Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
curated by Toby Kamps. Photo credit
Bellwether.
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Officer of the 5th New York Volunteer
Infantry, Duryée's Zouaves
(detail)
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"The 'F' Word," Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by
Elizabeth Thomas, and in "New History,"
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at
Hunter College, New York, curated by
Tracy Adler; and "The Old, Weird
America: Folk Themes in Contemporary
Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
curated by Toby Kamps. Photo credit
Bellwether.
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Marie Tepe, "French Mary,"
Vivandière of the 114th
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,
Collis's Zouaves
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"The 'F' Word," Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by
Elizabeth Thomas, and in "New History,"
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at
Hunter College, New York, curated by
Tracy Adler; and "The Old, Weird
America: Folk Themes in Contemporary
Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
curated by Toby Kamps. Photo credit
Bellwether.
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Marie Tepe, "French Mary,"
Vivandière of the 114th
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,
Collis's Zouaves (detail)
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"The 'F' Word," Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curated by
Elizabeth Thomas, and in "New History,"
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at
Hunter College, New York, curated by
Tracy Adler; and "The Old, Weird
America: Folk Themes in Contemporary
Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
curated by Toby Kamps. Photo credit
Bellwether.
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Soldier of the 146th New York Zouaves
Volunteer Infantry
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
"Allison Smith: Victory Hall,"
Bellwether, New York. Also exhibited in
"New History," Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York,
curated by Tracy Adler; and "The Old,
Weird America: Folk Themes in
Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, curated by Toby Kamps.
Photo credit Bellwether.
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Soldier of the 114th Pennsylvania
Infantry, Collis's Zouaves
2005
Slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
"Greater New York 2005," P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center/ Museum of
Modern Art, New York. Curated by Klaus
Biesenbach, Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry,
Bob Nickas, Amy Smith-Stewart & Ann
Temkin; and "The Old, Weird America:
Folk Themes in Contemporary Art,"
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
curated by Toby Kamps. Photo credit
P.S.1.
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Pile
2007
Paint, slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
Please click on image again for more detail.
"New History," Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York.
Curated by Tracy Adler. Photo credit
Leubsdorf Art Gallery.
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Pile (detail)
2007
Paint, slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass
Please click on image again for more detail.
"New History," Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York.
Curated by Tracy Adler. Photo credit
Leubsdorf Art Gallery.
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Zouave Dolls
2008
Paint, slip cast ceramic, linen, wool, cotton, leather, hemp fibers, brass, glass, painted linen
Installation view, dimensions variable.
"The Old, Weird America," Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston. Curated by Toby
Kamps. Photo courtesy of CAMH.
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