LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN'S BLACK MADONNA ALTAR INSTALLATION at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts during Día de los Muertos

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Madre Dolorosa altar installation
at the Boulder Dairy Center for the Arts 2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's altar exhibition at the Boulder Dairy Center for the Arts was on display from October 15-November 4, 2014. Here are a few closeup photographs from my Black Madonna altar installation, Madre Dolorosa: The Spanish Lady. I dedicated this altar to my grandmother, Sara Melnik Zuckerman and her six-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Zuckerman, who died in the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. The entire altar is built from antique furniture, Victorian mourning apparel, vintage pottery from Mexico, and a multitude of other old objects collected in antique store, flea markets and thrift shops around the country.

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Madre Dolorosa Altar

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Madre Dolorosa Altar

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Madre Dolorosa altar installation
in her exhibition at the Boulder Dairy Center for the Arts,
entitled Memory: Loss and Found

Please see my earlier post Assemblage artists Laurie Beth Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler.html for more photos from our two-person exhibition at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado, in October-November, 2014.

LAURIE BETH ZUCKERMAN EXHIBITS SHADOWBOX ALTARS at the Historic Carnegie Building's Community Creative Center, Vivid Conversations Show, November 2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Nuestra Senora del Monte Carmelo,
shadowbox altar, 2001-2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Nuestra Senora del Monte Carmelo,
shadowbox altar, 2001-2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's shadowbox dollhouse altars were on display in the "Vivid Conversations" exhibition at the Historic Carnegie Building's Community Creative Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. This November 2014 show was curated by artist Lili Francuz, who invited ten local artists to be included. Each artist was given their own wall and I displayed several new altars.

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Nuestra Senora de la Soledad altar 2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Breaking the Mold I
dollhouse altar 2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Breaking the Mold II
dollhouse altar 2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
shadowbox altar 2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's The Girl I Left Behind
dollhouse altar 2009/2014

Laurie Beth Zuckerman's exhibit of shadowboxes and dollhouse altars
at the Community Creative Center in the Historic Carnegie Building

My husband, Thomas Mathies, also exhibited his religious folk art crucifixes in this exhibition. Carved from tree roots and painted with traditional gesso and egg tempera, Tom's work looked spectacular in this historic building. Below are a few photos of his display.

Installation photo of Vivid Conversations exhibition in November 2014
at the Historic Carnegie Building's Community Creative Center in Fort Collins.
My husband, Thomas Mathies' crucifixes are hanging in the rear of this photo.

Installation photo of Vivid Conversations exhibition in November 2014
at the Historic Carnegie Building's Community Creative Center in Fort Collins.
My husband, Thomas Mathies' wooden crucifixes are hanging in this photo.
The wooden altar nicho, with a statue of Saint Francis, at the right of the upper photo were both built and carved by Tom, and painted by Laurie Beth Zuckerman.