Monstrous and Marvelous
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 4th, 2006
From April 3rd through April 8th, an exhibition of some interest to cryptozoology will be showing at Worth Ryder Gallery in Kroeber Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, California.
Various art students at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of the Arts have collaborated in the one-week exhibition entitled "American Mythology: The Monstrous and Marvelous," containing Bigfoot and some imagined monsters of the United States.
Information on the exhibition quotes those who designed it as saying:
"I would like it to seem sort of alien and yet familiar," said Josephine Zarkovich, the UC Berkeley art student who co-curated the exhibit with David Huff, a student at CCA’s Oakland campus.
"I’ve always been really fond of mythology," Zarkovich said.
Huff, who specializes photographs of roadside attractions, said they were able to attract some big names to the exhibit, including Big Foot, whose works depict — you guessed it — Bigfoot, and Eames Demetrios, whose Kymaerica installations imagine a different kind of North America.
The exhibition, found at 116 Kroeber Hall at UC Berkeley, is open from noon to 6 p.m. or by appointment. For directions and artists, please click here.
Other exhibition news:
Bates College’s Cryptozoology: Out of Time Space Scale,
University of Texas’ Bigfoot in Texas?,
and more on cryptozoology drawings…here.
I don’t really like the placement of Bigfoot under mythology, but hey, whatever.