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ROTUNDA PROJECTS: E.V. DAY — DIVAS ASCENDINGBrooks Museum / 1934 Poplar Ave. August 1, 2019 - July 5, 2020

Artist E.V. Day has repurposed costumes from the New York City Opera archives to make Divas Ascending, a series of sculptures that transform familiar icons of women’s empowerment and entrapment into new objects that confound conventional readings of these clichés. Using tension to suspend, stretch, and shred garments and to create forms that the artist likens to futurist abstract paintings in three dimensions, Day has created work that transforms rigid symbols into a range of emotions: anxiety, ecs...