{"id":2125,"date":"2016-11-06T22:38:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.independenceartstudios.com\/thedra\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2016-12-10T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T22:30:52","slug":"fifty-dolls-at-new-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independenceartstudios.com\/thedra\/archives\/2125","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Living Dolls&#8221; at New Gallery, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Living\u00a0Dolls<\/em><br \/>\nNew Gallery, Houston, Texas<br \/>\nMarch &#8211; April, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Thedra does not consider herself to be a \u201cpainter\u201d but instead a conceptual artist who is using painting as a medium to talk about sexuality, race and body image in the lives of the women that she knows and studies. She says, \u201cThe doll paintings were always intended to come together into a single container \u2014 a book \u2014 which is itself the final, finished piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"flexslider\">\n<ul class=\"slides\">\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2130\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/independenceartstudios.com\/thedra\/archives\/2125\/img_0408-710\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/independenceartstudios.com\/thedra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0408-710.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"710,473\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" 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