From our review of “Souvenir Stand” at Craftland:
Just in time for summer vacations, Craftland presents “Souvenir Stand” (235 Westminster Street, through June 26). Guest curator Liz K. Sheehan of Worcester rounds up four artists from as far away as the Pacific Northwest or the other side of the Atlantic for a mini-meditation on the mementos we lug back with us to remember our happy times away. It’s a fun and summery idea, but most of the art is too slight to carry it off.The best work is Brooklyn artist Alyssa Zygmunt’s souvenirs of gritty New York. She offers tiny metal bedbugs inside glass vials labeled with the scientific name “cimex lectularis” and single pigeon feathers in test tubes with labels identifying where she found them — the East Village, Union Square, Park Slope. She has added pictures of pigeons to the iconic I Heart NY logo on mugs, too.
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“Souvenir Stand,” Craftland, 235 Westminster St., Providence,May 27 to June 26, 2010.
Pictured from top to bottom: Alyssa Zygmunt, “I Heart NY mug”; James Milostan, “Round River Drive”; Alyssa Zygmunt “Pigeon Feather Souvenir.”
