
Frances Moyer
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland
Most of the pieces in Miss Moyer’s show are spindly figures cast in bronze; two of them are partly built around animal bones. They are all somewhat like Sears and Roebuck versions of Giacometti. There are also three wooden toys. One is a body with doors inserted into it. Another (Colonel Bogey’s Cupboard) contains heads, is painted gold and, like the former one, has a music box attached that plays the appropriate march. It is fun to open all the little doors and to wind the music box. The third construction (Alchemist’s Valise) has pamphlets in it with titles such as Witch-watching for Fun and Profit. All in all, there is something slightly unbelievable about this show.
