{"id":1743,"date":"2010-05-26T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T23:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/05\/martha_colburn_-_hardcore_pupp\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T23:12:06","slug":"martha_colburn_-_hardcore_pupp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/05\/martha_colburn_-_hardcore_pupp.html","title":{"rendered":"Martha Colburn &#8211; hardcore puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loose from their strings or using them as weapons, puppets in contemporary video, collage and sculpture tend toward the coarse and the brutal. They clump through their lives with a relish that is almost obscene, hypnotized by their own desires.<\/p>\n<p>Artists who stand out in this crowded field include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/artists\/askabananababy\/HH04116.html\">Nathalie Djurberg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburgh-festivals.com\/viewpreview.aspx?id=472\">William Kentridge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2005\/oct\/25\/1\">Paul McCarthy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulgergallery.com\/dynamic\/fr_artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=581&amp;Body=Tree%20Planting%20Project\">Sarah Anne Johnson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/artists\/clifford\/HH03083.html\">Cat Clifford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com\/wordpress\/?p=1128\">Kiki Smith<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmarks.com\/exhibitions\/1993-03-11_nayland-blake\/works-in-exhibition\/#\/images\/4\/\">Nayland Blake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcmhi.org\/ex_mhPuppetShow.htm\">Kara Walker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/danwebb1\/danwebbart.com\/Portfolio.html#40\">Dan Webb<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis-oppenheim.com\/sculpture\/13\"> Dennis Oppenheim<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.303gallery.com\/detail.php?workid=11316\">Anne Chu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/servlet\/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&amp;workid=21443&amp;searchid=10450&amp;tabview=text\">Thomas Schutte<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/huyghe\/index.html\">Pierre Huyghe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthacolburn.com\/\">Martha Colburn<\/a>, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambachandrice.com\/home2.html\"><i>Puppet Regime<\/i><\/a> is at Ambach &amp; Rice. Like Kentridge, she draws her tragedies from history, but she adds her own wild hair of pop culture and feminist humor. A dense collage of cutout, found and hand-colored figures collide in her videos and small Polaroid photos. Predator and prey flash by, trailing wreckage. Their score is chaos, and they never miss a beat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"marthacolburndrum.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/marthacolburndrum.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"372\" width=\"475\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"marthacolburnhunt.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/marthacolburnhunt.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"405\" width=\"475\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"marthacolburnvampir.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/marthacolburnvampir.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"497\" width=\"475\" \/>Through June 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loose from their strings or using them as weapons, puppets in contemporary video, collage and sculpture tend toward the coarse and the brutal. They clump through their lives with a relish that is almost obscene, hypnotized by their own desires. Artists who stand out in this crowded field include Nathalie Djurberg, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}