Like a Rowdy Raccoon: Bianca Fields @ Dragon, Crab and Turtle, St Louis
May 05, 2021 | in Installation
When you put on a show entitled
Like a Rowdy Raccoon, comprising images and plush sculptures featuring Count von Count and Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street, Tom of Tom and Jerry, and a wide range of characters from the primates family, and hang it at Katherine Bernhardt s newly launched Dragon, Crab, and Turtle Gallery, you got our 100% attention! And this is precisely the case with Bianca Fields major solo exhibition which is on view at Saint Louis newest art venue.
The choice of protagonists in Fields work contributes to the tension that holds the highly expressive imagery together. On one hand, evoking nostalgia and connection through frequent tributes to familiar cartoon characters, she quickly turns the tables with the introduction of wildlife archetypes, namely enraged mandrills. With somebody to lean on in a questionable face-off with an instinctively terri