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Christina Uebelein

My sculptures are two- and three-dimensional cartoons. Like other caricatures, they use humor, exaggeration, and distortion to comment on contemporary events or parody social situations. I simultaneously use literal meaning and parody. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone, and Mad Magazine inform my use of distorted scale and perspective. Like the captions to a New Yorker cartoon, I often give the assemblages a punning or satirical title. And, like cartoonists and other fabulists, my visual metaphors move between familiar natural or manufactured objects toward ‘an alternative universe of imaginative and analogical connections.’ The sculptures, including a new series of light sculptures, combine found objects, recycled materials, vintage toys, and construction site cast-offs.