Exhibition Catalog

Fuzzy Logic

Des Lee Gallery
Curator's Essay by Audrey Mast
2010
Fuzzy Logic
Des Lee Gallery

…Laura Splan’s Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft (2000) is a trio of plump, huggable pill-shaped pillows. Made for an exhibit at the first Ladyfest in Olympia, Washington, it could be argued that Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft arrived on the cusp of the contemporary DIY movement. Ten years later, Splan’s cheerful Pop sculpture still plays on our desire for comfort, but as mood-altering drugs have become increasingly common, we now read them as iconic objects ¬– like modern-day Campbell’s soup can – whose cultural significance reaches beyond their literal use. Splan has said that the process of latch-hooking itself is so repetitive as to be mind-numbing, like a drug. But the process of needlework can also be introspective…

— Audrey Mast, essay in exhibition catalog for Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Logic

Catalog for Group Exhibition

Des Lee Gallery
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Washington University
St. Louis, MO