Dollies and Villains
Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston
September 12 through October 17, 2020
The exhibition is comprised of new works, all created over the last seven months, and speaks to Cullar-Ledford’s emotional processing of the current pandemic, political and social unrest in America, and other struggles through 2020. “Adult play keeps me sane,” says Cullar-Ledford, who is well known for using dolls as symbols of societal roles in much of her recent work. Cullar-Ledford sees the doll motif as mentally soothing.
“I have been painting dollies to make me happy,” Cullar-Ledford explains. “Painting the villains takes away their power. It makes me feel like I’m doing something, anything, to respond to the bad things that are happening.”