Cara Long - PRESS - translucent porcelain installations & Sweet Mud Clay Works

HANGING BY A PAINFUL THREAD
Posted on January 8, 2009 by revieweditor
A review of Cara Long’s suspension and pause

The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri, has work from "suspension and pause" on view thorugh January 24 along with work by other J. Bird Studio artists,
Patti Krueger and Brooke Guardo (and other artists whose work has shown at Leedy-Voulkos recently. Image: Cara Long, "Panel 15," translucent porcelain, underglaze,
light, wood, metal. All images courtesy of the artist

J.Bird Studios Gallery
Kansas City, Kansas
October 10 - November 7, 2008
by Steve Brisendine

Cara Long’s suspension and pause is well-titled. The illuminated porcelain pieces and their accompanying studies give the viewer pause — largely because of the ways in
which their subjects are suspended.

The same faceless woman with dark hair in pigtails and wearing little more than a brassiere, panties, and striped stockings appears in each piece. Any eroticism that attaches
to the work, however, is most decidedly of the fringe — and beyond — persuasion.