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Wangechi Mutu

Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu isn't interested in pretty pictures. In her absurdist collages she takes magazine images of women and makes them almost monstrous. Her figures boast transplanted eyes that seem too large, too small, too far apart or too close together to be human. She uses textured paper to create ornate headdresses that bring horns to mind, or the hair of some Star Trek alien. Patterned sheets render skin echoing satellite photos of outer space. Mutu's "Profile" series subverts the Western portrait in every way - there are no seamless oil renderings here, nor the attempt to recreate that aesthetic - yet her figures maintain a curious appeal. A freak like me might even call them beautiful and then wonder what the heck is "too small," "too large" or "too far apart to be human." This is a large part of Mutu's point. The Kenyan raised, US trained artist (she's got degrees in the arts from Cooper Union and Yale Universities) likes to trap her viewers with layers of visual metaphor, forcing them to question assumptions about race, gender, geography, history and beauty. A trained sculptor and anthropologist, Mutu's work has evolved from faux-artifact making (back when she favored sculpture) to a collage process that collides everyday images with mythological and historical narrative. "Creatures," currently on exhibit at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Queens, NY, is a comprehensive showcase of Mutu's work of the past year, featuring numerous "portraits" and full body figures as well as sculptural elements (horns figure prominently). We met a few days before the exhibit was set to open, and talked while she was busily working to install one of the show's most ambitious offerings - a mural featuring a large double-headed snake-like creature whose body traces a fictive journey from the North to the South of Africa. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/arti...