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Primitive Twig - Bill & Marcia Finks
Bill & Marcia’s assemblage art dolls got me at first sight. This wonderful couple relocated to New York in 2001 and began to concoct funky and fun wall dolls from a bevy of metal findings, castoff doll parts, and forgotten bits of yesterday’s everyday. Well recognized for their reclaimed metal wall art, they began to work in a smaller scale. Using old tins and cans as bodies for their “dolls”, they affix china heads with festive abandon, and further adorn them with beads and bobs that become swingy arms and legs. Their creations convey movement despite the rusty oddness of their dashingly askew component parts. In Bill and Marcia’s realm, an old door’s ripped screen is a doll’s lacy skirt, while oxidizing chrome trim, a pair of dried up ballpoint pens, or Great Aunt Tessie’s bent utensils are perfectly suitable appendages. These two transform broken rhinestone pins, rusty metal bits, remnants of ribbon and curling wire into delights. Ridiculously incongruous, these dolls charm. The new story, told deftly by their assembled parts, creates an appeal that is fresh, nostalgic and just a bit sassy. We are thrilled to present their assemblage art. More dolls are on their way soon, email us to be notified of new arrivals from the Finks’ Manhattan studio.
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