Cat Clifford’s new show at Howard House is the product of a mind on fire. She’s back from a summer road trip to rural haunts
with a barrage of cut drawings, videos shot with devices ranging from
digital to Super 8, animated drawings, and pinhole photographs.
Often, she acts out imitations of what she finds—a piece of
driftwood, an oil derrick, an overturned easy chair in an
abandoned house. She mimics these things like she’s practicing to
become them. (Howard House, 604 Second Ave, 256-6399. 10:30
am–5 pm, free.)
Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male... More by Jen Graves