Patricia Piccinini, creator of the deeply disturbing Young Family sculpture of human-dog hybrids suckling their mother, is showing her latest work at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York City through November 26. The show is called "Nature's Little Helpers." When my wife Kelly saw a photo of this piece, titled "Surrogate (For the Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat)," she said, "It's so strange it takes my breath away." Exactly.
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UPDATE: Piccinini's "Young Family" can be seen currently in North Adams, Massachusetts at the Mass MoCA's "Becoming Animal" group show exploring "the closing gap between human and animal existence." Link and scroll down (Thanks, Larry!)
UPDATE: Xeni kindly pointed me to another intense Piccinini artwork, The Embrace, featured this week on artnet. Link
