Fright Night |
Kreepy Dollsby Cynnie Gaasch |
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Kreepy Dolls, created by Buffalo artists Dan Baxter and Jeffrey Vincent, seem committed to scaring your children, but would make a terrific gift for anyone with a funky aesthetic and a sense of humor. Now on sale at the new Kepa3 gallery (31 Barker St.), they are, as original art, reasonably priced (between $60 and $300). The dolls fill a total of seven walls of the gallery, and are also hanging from the ceiling. Remnants of cloth and odd household objects roughly stitched together give these soft sculptures an air of the semi-homeless. The exhibit, titled “Free the Dolls – a Kreepy Doll Factory Show,” is definitely a highlight in what the holiday exhibitions (actually, the whole year) have to offer.
Each doll has its own personality, and meeting a Kreepy Doll is sort of like seeing the dysfunctions of a new acquaintance without even having a conversation. Like character portraits, you may recognize the alter egos of people you come in contact with regularly in this group of misfits. “Doll with Doll” has a long-armed, beady-eyed giant protecting a smiling red kitten doll—about a quarter of its size—from the rough crowd in the room. Other dolls have names like “corpse and crow,” “Brown Monkey Brown,” “Lazy Underground Lizard,” “Smoking Monkey,” and “Terrible Elephant.” There are almost 150 individuals, as the artists in their statement describe these deviant dolls as “people.”
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