Susan Leopold: Mixed-Up Worlds features eleven mixed-media works that show us unusual views of familiar places. With sculptures comprised of mirrors, photographs, and angled walls, Leopold breaks apart images of bathrooms, motel units, and school hallways, and reorganizes their elements to create optical illusions and mazes. Leopold presents tiny versions of architectural spaces in peephole boxes that further alter perspective. And, in photo collages layered with semi-transparent paper and pencil drawings, Leopold changes spaces from the familiar to the unfamiliar by blurring and distorting images.

Susan Leopold: Mixed-Up Worlds provides the opportunity for children and families to view and discuss the artwork, share their memories, play, and make art together. A gallery guide is available with activities for adults to complete with their children while viewing some of Leopold's sculptures. The exhibition also includes a resource area where visitors can read books to further examine themes in the exhibition.

New York-based Leopold was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1960. She received a bachelor's of fine arts degree from New York's School of Visual Arts and a master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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Waterway, 2000

Kidspace at MASS MoCA is a joint program of the Williams College Museum of Art, the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, and MASS MoCA. Additional funding is provided in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (a state agency), the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the Cherkis family, and the Brownrigg Charitable Trust in memory of Lynn Laitman.