{"id":800,"date":"2009-07-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/ariana_page_russell_-_wearing\/"},"modified":"2009-07-14T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T12:00:00","slug":"ariana_page_russell_-_wearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/ariana_page_russell_-_wearing.html","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Page Russell – wearing nothing but her art"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Nick Cave<\/a> does with sound suits<\/a>, Ariana Page Russell does with her skin. Both suits and skin are a means of a expressing a flamboyant relationship to the body. (Click to enlarge.) Says Russell:<\/p>\n

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The power of a blush, an ephemeral and
\nuncontrollable response revealing internal sentiment, becomes the
\nfashion of skin. I have sensitive skin that easily flushes. In Dressing<\/i>,
\nI use the imagery of this temporary change as my medium via collages
\nmade from photographs of my skin. These collages show shades of
\nsensitivity in reds and pinks made into patterns, then scanned and
\nprinted as temporary tattoos.I place the skin tattoos back on skin,
\nadorning myself with a longer lasting, intentional blush. Rather than
\nbeing frustrated by my skin’s transparency, I claim it by dressing
\nup in the crimson hues that reveal my vulnerability<\/font>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Vulnerability is not the word I’d chose. She turns the meaning of a blush inside out, into a celebratory song of self. She’s at Platform Gallery<\/a> through July 3.<\/p>\n

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What Nick Cave does with sound suits, Ariana Page Russell does with her skin. Both suits and skin are a means of a expressing a flamboyant relationship to the body. (Click to enlarge.) Says Russell: The power of a blush, an ephemeral and uncontrollable response revealing internal sentiment, becomes the fashion of skin. I have […]<\/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-800","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\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}