This full-scale model has been tipped on its side and placed in the center of the main gallery. Viewers cannot enter the carpeted space, but can peer in through the doors, which now function like windows. You are immediately put off kilter and off balance, and a dizzying feeling results. Up and down are successfully confused. In a mini-retrospective exhibition of Kim Dingle , one not only has the opportunity to see where her bad girls are venturing, but also to see where they have come from.
Dingle works with all mediums, with photography and painting as well as sculpture and installation.
Her works have feminist undertones yet are are not didactic. In early paintings she imposed young baby girls into images of the wild west, or allowed them to fight and frolic on the range. Her girls always wear frilly white dresses yet carry guns and are not afraid to fight. In the later installation pieces she has created an environment for Priss, the naughty baby girl who throws her toys all over her playroom, marks crayons on the walls and won't stay in her crib. The bodies and the paintings are thickly textured and dense.