Last night was the official opening of “Double X”, an exhibition at Arizona State University’s Step Gallery that examines the network of mentorship. The exhibition features small works by women university sculpture professors from around the country. In addition, each invited professor has invited one female student who is either a current or recently graduated undergraduate senior to contribute one small work. A piece of mine entitled Deep Fry Your Soul was included in the exhibition and was shown alongside my instuctor, Frances Whitehead. Frances has been my professor for two semesters here at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Advanced Sculpture program. Creating her own courses outside from Adv. Sculpture, Frances has now constructed her own "K-lab" in the Sculpture department of the Columbus building where she will be teaching Avant-Gardening for the Spring 2008 semester. Frances contacted me early in the semester to see if I'd be interested in the show in Arizona.

Although neither of us had the opportunity to attend the opening, the website and images shared with us look great.



An outside view of the Double X exhibition in Tempe, AZ



Close-up image of sculpture by Allison Luoma, an assistant professor of art at Kansas University.



Above is a rear view of the piece in which i chose to include for the exhibition. Deep Fry Your Soul, consisted of a slumped over unicorn coated in deep fried egg, flour and cornmeal batter, it will last forever 8-)


For more information on the show please refer to the gallery website @ http://art.asu.edu/gallery/step/doublex/ and as always please refer to my website, http://www.samiamirza.com, for updates on new work and upcoming exhibitions. Thank You to all who were involved in making the Double X show a success!