Creep Show

Reconnect with your inner teen

A A A Comments By Laura Hahnefeld Thursday, May 6 2010

As teenagers, most of us filled evenings of boredom and adolescent angst with ghost stories, slasher movies, and Ouija board Q&A sessions. Now, Chicago-based artist Corkey Sinks has gone and put a twist on these pubescent nail-biters with an exhibit crawling with creepy.

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Through her vast use of mixed media, Sinks startles the senses with an exploration of modern manifestations of urban legend, superstition, and folklore in horror film and teen culture, providing a historic roadmap of terror and an opportunity to reconnect with the darker side of growing up. Wind your way through a gloomy corridor lined with unsettling video installations to discover a string of God’s eyes made from black yarn as you see a banner that reads, “Light as a feather, stiff as a board,” on a neighboring wall.

Then put your friend’s underwear in the freezer. Just kidding.

Fri., May 7, 6-9 p.m., 2010

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