Exhibitions

• August 1st - August 28th
• Deborah Oropallo

Deborah Oropallo’s new body of work Wild Wild West provides a playful fashion-based performance art based on the iconic West. Her pieces portray cowgirls wearing chaps, small skirts or swinging ropes. They appear sexy, playful and powerful. 

Deborah Oropallo says, “Any kind of adornment can be beautiful, it can be subversive. So it’s about liberation in one sense, about these women being sexually overt, and it’s about hierarchy and bondage, sex and power. I wanted the merged images... to elevate maids, widows, nurses, and brides above the rank and file and make them the new royalty.”

"I think I’m looking for a hybrid of images that might reflect a notion of the pop west. Although there is a female sartorial humor in this work, I’m not just making fun of it. Is it the female equivalent of the Marlboro Man, symbol or stereotype – I’m not sure."