Multi-media artist Angela Ellsworth never, ever disappoints me. And just when I think she can't outdo herself, she proves me wrong. Her aesthetic coup this time can be seen in "Angela Ellsworth: Underpinnings" at Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale until January 31. And it's one for the books.
Right: One of Ellsworth's sister wives toting a machine gun in honor of Valerie Export's "Action Pants: Genital Panic" (1969)It was during last night's ridiculously crowded opening where Ellsworth, known no
For the opening of her show "Underpinnings" at the Lisa Sette Gallery, Angela Ellsworth had performance actors dressed as members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints and acting out performance works from the 1960s, 70s and 80s by famous women performance artists.
Writer Kathleen Vanesian describes the scene in "Artist Angela Ellsworth Channels Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith and Makes a Point in Sette Gallery's Underpinning:"
"Moving like zombies through the throngs of gallery v
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