Big Red & Shiny "Anissa Mack@ Small A Projects"

by Micah J. Malone

March 17, 2008

Anissa Mack's recent exhibition at Small A Projects does something extraordinary: she participates in a "local" community's practice without irony. Considering her subject matter is local crafters at a country fair, this is no small accomplishment. For her exhibition "The Last Full Weekend Each September" Mack executed every possible craft category for the Durham Fair, the largest agricultural fair in Connecticut, which has occurred every last full weekend of September since 1916. At Small A we see her efforts displayed, prize ribbons included, in two sets of object collages, one executed in 1996 and her current anniversary project from last year. "Ceramics-decorative item", "Christmas-other article" and "Dolls, toy or game not wood" are just a few of the 69 categories, making the work needed for this fair astonishingly specific, but more importantly, local.

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