Art in America, January 1st, 2006
The old-timey world of traveling carnivals, Wild West shows and rural barnraisings is given a nightmare treatment in the cheerfully demonic works of Chicago-based artist Donald Owen Colley. In Colley's work, visual Americana is frequently used to suggest a world without order or compassion. Symbols of prosperity and benevolence--familiar motifs like sheaves of wheat, torches, wreaths, decorative urns and American eagles--are modeled in relief on the wide black frames that surround tiny glazed porcelain paintings of unsettling and often horrific events.
In Untitled (Obedience), 2004, a figur...
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