Julie McNair
Bearful, 2011
Clay with Colored Slips and Oil Pigments
35 x 10 x 9 in
Over the years, Julie McNair mined the rich history of doll-making (which dates back 25,000 years) to make fantastical clay images that, like their cultural antecedents, make an invisible life...
Over the years, Julie McNair mined the rich history of doll-making (which dates back 25,000 years) to make fantastical clay images that, like their cultural antecedents, make an invisible life visible: namely hers. Julie’s doll-like forms are at once ironical and allegorical, personal and universal, but always, they are magically expressive and tinged with pathos and/or humor