In Honor Of Our Cold Colorado Friends Our Bugs Undressed Is A Roach
This Roach is coming out from the cold.
The Roaches That Came In from the
Cold
For Catherine Chalmers, a cockroach is a blank canvas. And today 18 squirming insects will emerge from her refrigerator to undergo a metamorphosis€”into painted players in a tableau she will photograph
by Blake Eskin
“A frog or a praying mantis, they do interesting things,” says Catherine Chalmers, and she should know. Chalmers has spent the better part of the last decade raising frogs, praying mantises, snakes, and mice in her SoHo loft. Her larger-than-life color photographs of these animals doing interesting things€”eating other animals, mostly€”have earned her art-world acclaim and popular praise. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and collected in the monograph
Different strokes, let me be the first to say I would rather sel real estate.