Gummy Bear Fun

"It’s a chandelier! It’s a bear-skin rug! It’s a … Gummi bear masterpiece? Visit the new space of Gallery Revisited between now and April 22 and see its grand reopening exhibition, Consumerism & Product #1, featuring work by YaYa Chou and Katy Bowen. Both artists are dedicated to craft-making with domestic materials, and both love color, texture, and the animal kingdom. Maybe you do too, but you’ve never slayed or splayed a bear like Chou, a 2000 CalArts MFA, has. Behold her sweet beast – 30 inches from head to tail – made of untreated Gummi bears stitched with monofilament to a canvas “skin” and around a metal cage “head” to effect the most tempting floor covering you’ve ever seen. Then look overhead and see the matching 30-inch-tall Gummi bear chandelier, a working light fixture that, after a year and a half, has yet to succumb to hungry critters, human or other. Now, that’s incredible! Weds.-Suns. noon- 6 p.m.; Tues. by appt. Free. 3204 Sunset Blvd., L.A., (626) 253-5266. Galleryrevisited.com" Courtesy of Los Angeles City Beat.