You Don't Need to Be Angry to Enjoy the Mad March Art Show

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When you first take a gander at Michael Baird's artistic creations, it might take you awhile to figure out what you're looking at. And even after pondering his work, you still might have questions about what Michael makes. He "wants the viewers to be free to follow their imagination and create their own explanations for what they are seeing," and what they're seeing are his interpretations of flesh dolls with different moods. Yep - blobs of flesh (sheep skin) with intentionally crude stitching and creepy taxidermy eyeballs. I don't know what I think about his pieces on display for the Mad March show at the Mad Art Gallery, but to each his own. Nobody can accuse him of not creating outside the box.

What: Mad March Show
Free Grand Opening: Tonight (March 6) from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Dates: March 6 through March 30
Where:The Mad Art Gallery

Jeff Brawn, an accomplished writer and artist based in St. Louis, is also being featured at the Mad March Show at the gallery. He uses everything from the pages of the novels he writes to watercolor to rusted metal on wood to create his somber pieces, and you can expect many of his pieces to feature this young girl.