"Blockheads" opens at DMOMA

"Blockheads - The Self-Taught Art of W. Logan Fry" opened at The Digital Museum of Modern Art December 1, 2004. Exhibition location is:

http://www.dmoma.org/lobby/exhibitions/blockheads/blockhead.html

Fry is an untrained artist who lives and works on a small farm in Northeast Ohio. Educated in the law, he closed his office in 1987 to commit his sometimes strange vision to physical form.

"Blockheads" are a type of rural folk art object consisting of blocks of wood, stone and other materials, to which paint, hardware, twigs, nails and other items have been added, to form a face or head.

Fry's blockheads were exhibited extensively in the early 1990s, including the Canton Art Institute; Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Delaware; and the 1989 and 1990 May Shows of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Two previously unexhibited blockheads: Soulless Wit and Vagina Dentata, will be on public view for the first time.

The exhibition also includes an adjunct gallery of photo portraits depicting "the human blockhead," a performance art (or freak show) act in which spikes, nails, drills and other objects are driven into the head through the nose and other orifices (natural or artificial).

"America loves its blockheads!" says Fry. Here at DMOMA, we hope you will too.