BALTIMORE CITY PAPER
Hide and Seek
by Bret McCabe, June 17, 2009
What stands out here are the works that riff on the Masked‘s theme–such as Dawn Black’s “Conceal Project,
…What stands out here are the works that riff on the Masked‘s theme–such as Dawn Black’s “Conceal Project,” an array of images. Here small gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper portraits of various people–in animal or fetish masks, in costumes, wearing traditional non-Western clothing, heads wrapped in checked scarves and holding a firearm aloft, etc.–smear the idea of a mask to its breaking point, as the line separating what somebody is wearing to pretend to be someone and what somebody is wearing because it’s an extension of who they are isn’t always clear…
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