Thrift store art showing at Creative Electric
Currently showing at Creative Electric Studios: “Past Lives: Thrift Store Ephemera” by Wyatt McDill.
The show features still-life paintings, photography and installations made by McDill at thrift stores in the last year. The work is a deadpan look at the folly of objects people chose to have in their lives, then chose not to have in their lives.
To be frank, thrift stores kind of creep me out. Maybe it’s the musty used smell. Maybe it’s the musty used-smelling people that sometimes shop there. And I will forever be scarred by a visit to a Ben Franklin store somewhere in western Wisconsin. Not a thrift store exactly, but full of cheap old stuff that nobody wants.
So it probably makes for great art. Evocative. A little discomfiting. Enjoyable in a repulsive sort of way. (Or maybe that’s just me and my hangups.)
Catch it this Saturday (2/10) or next (2/17) from 11am to 4pm.
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Oooh, wish I could magically zap in and out of Minneapolis to get the peanut butter cookies & see this show- and not experience blinding cold. FYI: it’s sunny today in SF. But you guys do get to ski without driving 5 hours to Tahoe…