hamra abbas

It’s a Boy! (2008), translates the familiar figure of a plump baby boy from Woodward’s trademark gripe water bottle into the supra-real form of a gigantic action figure or parade float. Abbas returns us to a moment before we learned to differentiate high art from kitsch, and gods from comic book heroes. In a similar manner, she reworks the form of the original object, reducing certain features and exaggerating others, to tap into a broader gestalt. Anna J. Sloan