Recycled Artist at SAM: Nick Cave
Ruby met up with Marita to see Meet Me at the Center of the Universe, the exuberant exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum featuring the soundsuits of artist Nick Cave. Cave utilizes recycled materials/thrift store finds, including doilies, crocheted afghans, ceramic figurines, plastic and tin toys, stuffed animals, sequined dresses, human hair, buttons, beads, and other ordinary stuff to create extraordinary costumes that can be worn for performances but are also mesmerizing as sculpture.
Read more about this show in the Stranger/Jen Graves, Seattle Times/Michael Upchurch, Art Daily, and the Sunbreak/Michael van Baker
more about Nick Cave Soundsuits by Jen Graves in the Stranger HERE