Tiny people perch on the tips of artist Alice Bartlett's felted fingernails. She's one of the creators featured in apexart's Feel Big Live Small, an exhibition that celebrates the art of miniatures and dioramas. From Citizen Science's Breaking Bad-inspired Lego playset, to Kendall Murray's dreamworlds encased in metal compacts, the showcase focuses on our "fascination with all things small," and delves into the technical challenges of crafting such compact worlds.
So, why work at such a small scale? Apexart asked each of the artists in the show to share a morsel of insight into their processes and motivations.
Joe Fig
"My work explores the creative process and the spaces where art is made. I want to bring the viewer inside the artist's studio. To share in the experience of a studio visit, a privilege most do not get. Ironically working in a miniature scale allows me to easily present a large environment. It allows the viewer a God's eye perspective. There's the sense of voyeurism or of reality TV, Big Brother, or The Truman Show. Miniatures evoke a feeling of wonder or awe. It’s like Gulliver's Travels. It suspends reality taking you out of your surroundings and brings you into a new world."
