Monstrous and Marvelous
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 4th, 2006
From April 3rd through April 8th, an exhibition of some interest to cryptozoology will be showing at Worth Ryder Gallery in Kroeber Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, California.
Various art students at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of the Arts have collaborated in the one-week exhibition entitled "American Mythology: The Monstrous and Marvelous," containing Bigfoot and some imagined monsters of the United States.
Information on the exhibition quotes those who designed it as saying:
"I would like it to seem sort of alien and yet familiar," said Josephine Zarkovich, the UC Berkeley art student who co-curated the exhibit with David Huff, a student at CCA’s Oakland campus.
"I’ve always been really fond of mythology," Zarkovich said.
Huff, who specializes photographs of roadside attractions, said they were able to attract some big names to the exhibit, including Big Foot, whose works depict — you guessed it — Bigfoot, and Eames Demetrios, whose Kymaerica installations imagine a different kind of North America.
The exhibition, found at 116 Kroeber Hall at UC Berkeley, is open from noon to 6 p.m. or by appointment. For directions and artists, please click here.
Other exhibition news:
Bates College’s Cryptozoology: Out of Time Space Scale,
University of Texas’ Bigfoot in Texas?,
and more on cryptozoology drawings…here.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
I don’t really like the placement of Bigfoot under mythology, but hey, whatever.