A survey of the sea, religion and more, Immerse is local artist and wigmaker Stacey Vest’s first solo show. Yes, she’ll have live models and mannequins in fantastical headdresses, but the onetime graphic designer is eager to take over Pique’s entire gallery/Airbnb with a multidimensional installation — wall art, costumes, jewelry, lights and music — that goes all the way to hell and back. As visitors wander farther from the beach in the front gallery, they will pass a colorful reef and then enter an abyss/purgatory where a fluorescent balloon “anemone” might actually be “an enemy.” The final space, an area of reflection with mirrors and a slideshow of the making of this exhibit and Vest’s previous work, is “whatever someone wants it to be,” she says.
Read an interview with Vest and more about the exhibit here.
