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You Can Have It All

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Lynn DeClemente|Lori Gordon|Hope Hilton|Virginia Kleker|Megan McCready
Ashley Neese|Susan O'Malley|Daniel Purbrick|Kathryn Sclavi

Megan McCready
if i just eat them all i won't have to think about them
mixed media [2005]

Reconstructed in detail, stands the kitchen cabinet and perpetually stocked candy dish of M&Ms that has been a permanent fixture in the artist’s life. McCready describes how during her visits home, the bottomless bowl “stares at me…and I cannot help but eat every single one thinking if they are gone and out of sight I will not have to worry about them anymore.” Her mother’s unspoken, habitual action is to promptly refill the bowl with a bag of holiday M&Ms she bought on sale months earlier. A cycle of compulsion to eat and refill exists for them, both McCready and her mother subject to the temptation of ‘you can have it all’. This phrase is divided and printed on customized pink and gold M&Ms, which McCready has made available for exhibition visitors to munch on, along with postcards detailing the numerous variations offered by the manufacturers.

Exhibition Text: Tanya Zimbardo


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