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Press
• Gapers Block, "Domestic Sunshine at Northwestern," A/C Arts + Culture=Cool, April 21, 2008
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• "Bloody bunnies and mutant muscles: sexuality and society on view in Norris’s Dittmar Gallery," North by Northwestern, April 17, 2008
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• Rogerspark.com, featured artist, July 2007
• Gapers Block, "Collaged Clothing," Arts & Architecture, June 5, 2007
• Laura Stewart, "Stretching to see 'fiber art': New exhibit reveals unique creations," Daytona Beach News-Journal, April 15, 2007
• Jules Masterjohn, Forms, Figures, Symbols, Durango Telegraph, Novemeber 23, 2006
• Exhibition focuses on body-image issues, Inside Illinois, Vol. 24, No. 23, June 16, 2005
• Chicago Reader, photo, p. 18, July 5, 2002
• Mary Sansom, Life in fast line inspires artist, Charleston Gazette Metro West, July 16, 1997
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From Daytona Beach News-Journal (April 15, 2007)
Stretching to see 'fiber art': New exhibit reveals unique creations
"Just as inventive in its style, medium and most of all message are 'Muscle Baby #1' by Marcy Sperry of Chicago and 'Paper or Plastic' by Allegra Davis Burke of Santa Rosa, Calif. Sperry combined dozens of magazine-slick pages showing musclemen's torsos into the material for a baby sleeper, then added a realistic-looking beaded zipper. And in her riff on the false choice between paper and plastic -- each environmentally destructive -- Burke used old credit cards and folded, woven plastic bags to create a witting, yet piercing spoof of consumer pitfalls."
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From the Durango Telegraph, 11/23/06 on the “Forms, Figures, Symbols” exhibition at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts, Pagosa Springs, CO
"Enigmatic and intellectually demanding, a few artworks in the show require careful examination to fully perceive what the artwork has to offer. Illinois artist Marcy Sperry’s mixed-media wall piece, “EWOK,” is a real child’s jumpsuit that has been lavishly embellished with glass beads and hand-embroidered with likenesses of cartoon characters and media-generated images in fabric. The empty clothing suggests a lack of substance in the experience of today’s children, their young minds excessively influenced by television and advertising.”
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Exhibition focuses on body-image issues
(Originally published in News Bureau/University at Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, “Inside Illinois,” Vol. 24, No. 23, June 16, 2005)
Issues related to gay male body image will be explored in a new exhibition on view through July 9 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the UI. “Skin Deep,” which features prints, mixed media assemblages and other work by Bruce Eves, Karl Moehl, Marcy Sperry and Billy Stroud, “only scratches the surface yet explores many issues, images and facets of the gay male body image through art,” according to Stroud, a Bloomington, Ill.-based artist, art educator and UI alumnus who organized the show. Eves, an artist who lives in Toronto, is a co-founder of the International Gay History Archive, now housed in the Rare Books and Manuscripts division of the New York Public Library. Mohl is an artist, writer and emeritus professor at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. Sperry is a Chicago-based art educator involved in youth-based HIV/AIDS awareness, and co-instructor for a collaborative Web project at Street-Level Youth Media.
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Press Release for “Artificial Nature” show at Artemisia Gallery
(March 1, 2002)
Chicago artists Marcy and Chris Sperry combine efforts in an exhibition of visual storytelling--sometimes chaotic, sometimes quiet, and most always autobiographical. Where Marcy combines text and inanimate objects with digital imagery to communicate "certain personal intimacies that don't easily translate into words," Chris turns to paint, most specifically an earthy palette inspired by his native West Virginia landscape. Marcy's approach is one of introspection, bound by her internal world. Chris, on the other hand, turns to his immediate family and a childhood filled with a bee-raising father, a crotchety grandfather and love notes to his wife. Together, the Sperrys interweave words with a visual language distinct and unique from one another yet inevitably finding their connection to a cohesive and unified narrative.
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Life in fast line inspires artist: Her drawings now on display with five other artists at Cultural Center
(Originally published in the Charleston Gazette's Metro West, July 16 1997)
By Mary Sansom, Metro Staff
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