Doll House

August 15 - September 27, 1996

Doll House is an exhibition consisting of installations, assemblages, photographs, paintings, videos, and virtual environments exploring the role of childhood memory and socially imprinted concepts of “the feminine” in contemporary art. 

Seven of the 18 participants in Doll House are graduates of ISU’s School of art: Amy Buck, Tonya Hart, Taya Hubbard, Kim Knowles, Mandy Morrison, Rachel Nowak, and Cec Hardacker. The other artists are Laurie Anderson, Nancy Burson, Karen Finley, Karen Kilimnik, Mery Lynn McCorkle, Aimee Morgana, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons, all living in New York city; Mindy Schwartz and Jeanne Dunning, of Chicago; Janet McKiernan, living in Seattle; and the late Chicago surrealist, Gertrude Abercrombie.