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Amelia Bird
Anna Daedalus
Bonnie Thompson Norman
Bryan Kring
Carrie L. Larson
Casey Gardner
Cathryn Miller
Charlene Asato
Christine Martell
Colin Frazer
Cynthia Colbert
Cynthia Nourse Thompson
Dennis Yuen
Emily Martin
Erin Sweeney
Heather Doyle-Maier
Heather Kasvinsky
Joanne Price
Joshua Orr
Karen Chew & Nanette Wylde
Karen Kunc
Kelly Parsell
Kyle Holland
Laurie Weiss
Lesley Mitchell
Linda K Johnson
Lori Reed
Marie Marcano
Merike van Zanten
Peggy Johnston
Ravi Shukla + S. Arden Hill
Rebecca Chamlee
Rebecca Childers
Sammy Seung-min Lee
Sarah McDermott
Servane Briand
Sun Young Kang
Turner Hilliker

     

Heather Doyle-Maier

Denver, Colorado

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H
er (un) Doing

fabric, thread, used girls’ clothes

6 x 7¾ x 1¾ closed; 6 x 14¼ x 1½

© 2011

open edition, inquire about availability

Her (un) Doing is a feminist look at the traditional “learn to dress myself” fabric books, exploring the simple tasks involved in dressing a small girl and examining the unstated power structures embedded within such everyday actions. In this work, I reduced the process of getting dressed to a series of encounters with different fasteners – the buttons, zippers and snaps that keep clothing in place on the body. Simultaneously, I looked at getting dressed as not only a functional procedure, but also as the process of being fastened into a gender.

Heather Doyle-Maier holds a BFA from Metropolitan State College of Denver in Visual Art. Heather brings her experience as a storyteller-musician, a costume designer and a mother to bear in her work. A member of Edge Gallery in Denver, Heather’s award-winning work has been exhibited locally, regionally and nationally.