Eric Bainbridge
Walker Art Center
Upon entering Eric Bainbridge’s show of five fake-fur-covered sculptures, one felt a bit like Alice when she tumbled into Wonderland and swallowed a pill that made her grow small. Looming up to 11 feet in height and comprising disparate forms whose identities are often obscure, the works are at once humorous and disconcerting. A low-slung dinosaur with a disjointed tail wears on its back a skyscraper, a ship, and a human head; a colossal swan is laden with a faucet, a rose, a ship, and two bulbous forms that look like furry hassocks. Uncomfortably distorted and abnormal in scale, the works by