Works That Disturb is an exhibition that continues through March 27th, 2010 at the Alphonse Berber in Berkeley, California. It certainly features some disturbing, wonderful things.

Annie McKnight’s Untitled features bracelets made of… taxidermied mice.

“Kim Ye’s living sculptures connect artist and model, work and world in a collaborative act of animation. Crafted of silk, nylon, latex, wire and wood, Ye’s costume-like constructions appear in two incarnations during the exhibition. At the opening reception, live models step into the sculptures and confront spectators as artifacts from a post-human game of Pygmalion and Galatea. Afterward, like so many snake-skins, the works are displayed without their human centers - a metamorphosis that leaves them “unpeopled” and alterior. Like Yves Klein’s anthropometries or the plaster ghosts of Pompeii’s last inhabitants, Ye’s constructions effect an anthropomorphic apophasis; they invoke the human body only to affirm its impermanence.” - Alphonse Berber Press Release

Other works include Angie Crabtree’s Crucified Comfort, which shows Jesus with um, his penis out, and photographs on death and dying.

Soon-to-be-featured-on-Redefine artist Thea Wolfe will have a Valentine’s Day show opening at Berkeley’s Firehouse Collective! Naturally, it’s a busy evening, but if you fancy yourself an art lover (and also love what Wolfe calls, in her words, “free beer and wine and homemade pervert-friendly cookies”), spend V-Day at the Firehouse Collective, because the event is ONE NIGHT ONLY! Miss Wolfe will be debuting all her newly painted portraits of musicians, and she will be on hand for you to harass.

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