Elizabeth Murray: Red Shoe - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego -

Elizabeth Murray: Red Shoe - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

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"Red Shoe" has brought to life a formerly forgotten corner of campus. It is an alluring place for children to climb, its smooth exterior giving way to a roughly hull-like interior, hinting at the enclosure of a nest or fort. Narratives come to mind as fantasy evokes the resonance of childhood rhymes and tales. In the words of Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art, "Reason presides over universities; it remains for artists to give substance to those areas of consciousness that reason has not and perhaps cannot articulate." Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37818]

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