Last year's postcard show at South Puget Sound Community College was a huge success so they're doing it again. This one does not seem quite as good, but maybe it's just that the novelty has worn off.
Last year's theme was "Wish you were here," and there were a lot of clever and funny takeoffs on that well-worn sentiment. This year the theme is "My kind of place." The crop of postcard-size art this year doesn't play on the theme so much. Rather, it is a somewhat random collection of 239 paintings, drawings, collages, and even some three-dimensional work. Most of them don't even pretend to be postcards but are simply artworks of a particular size.
One fun piece that does comment on the theme is by Gina Thompson. It features two circles that, in context, appear to be big, round cartoonish breasts. Plastered across them is the word "Censored," and at the top are the words "Not my kind of place. Extending the big-boobs theme, Thompson has another one that has very large boobs with burlesque pasties extending three-dimensionally out from the card - the boobs, not just the pasties.
Read Alec Clayton's full review of "My Kind of Place" in the Weekly Volcano's Arts section.
SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE, "MY KIND OF PLACE...A FINE ART POSTCARD," THROUGH FEB. 15, MONDAY-THURSDAY, NOON-4 P.M., AND BY APPOINTMENT, CLOSED JAN. 21, 2011 MOTTMAN RD. SW. OLYMPIA, 360.596.5527
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