Think Pink
GAVLAK Gallery
Palm Beach, Florida
February 13 – March 20, 2010

Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody

Beth Rudin DeWoody has always had a way of curating with color as concept, and Think Pink was a celebration of that—an exuberant, sensual, and subversive tribute to the color pink, hosted in the unapologetically pastel world of Palm Beach. With over 85 artists, the show covered the spectrum of pink from deliciously sweet to wildly provocative.

Our contribution to the show was Miss Piggy in Hiding, a pink glass beaded tree sculpture nestled inside a handmade ultrasuede box. The interior of the box was lined with Miss Piggy bedsheets from our childhood—Steven’s, to be exact. He had been obsessed with Miss Piggy as a kid, collecting everything from dolls to pillowcases, which he played with well into his early teens, sometimes in secret. One Miss Piggy puppet was even hidden in a sink cavity in the basement so no one would find it.

The artwork embraced those childhood memories, combining humor and tenderness with a touch of danger. The pink tree stood among a bed of scrolls, delicate and dreamy—but also, in retrospect, fragile. The work had been installed in the gallery’s window for the duration of the exhibition, and when we received it back, the sun had bleached the once-vibrant pink into something far more muted. Still, we didn’t mind. Like memories and bodies, artworks change over time. They age, they fade, and they carry their history with them.

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