It's All About the Shoes

Artist: Jennifer Weigel

Jennifer Weigel is a multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist. Weigel utilizes a wide range of media to convey her ideas, including assemblage, drawing, fibers, installation, jewelry, painting, performance, photography and video. Much of her work touches on themes of beauty, identity (especially gender identity), memory & forgetting, and institutional critique. Weigel’s art has been exhibited nationally in all 50 states and has won numerous awards.

“I loved the idea that the ruby slippers could extend to all kinds of footwear including thongs, heels, sandals, cowboy boots… I thought that “It’s All About the Shoes” would be a cute play on the story as well, since Dorothy used the ruby slippers to get home in the end. I wanted to show Toto as playful and fashionable and glamorous all at the same time. Because maybe it really is all about the shoes after all.”