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Local burlesquer Michelle Baldwin has known a lot of driven people: One guy she knew had only five things in his house for a time; another couple of collectors were finally so freaked by how much stuff they had that they purged it all from their house.
But her friend Andrew Novick is on a level all by himself. He has the largest collection of anyone I know, she says, and thats no joke. You could say that Novicks collection is a compilation of random things he likes, all mixed up with the stories they evoke, which he also collects. He has things that no 39-year-old male would be collecting, Baldwin says, and that might include Barbie dolls, fawn figurines, stuffed animals, dead animals, answering-machine cassettes, JonBenét Ramsey memorabilia, clown paintings, Japanese kawaii, the tickets from every concert hes ever seen, and countless other objects, so many that theyve swallowed up his house and overtaken additional storage units.
So when Adam Lerner of the Lab at Belmar invited Baldwin to serve as a guest curator from outside the insular art world, she thought of Novicks collection of all collections and had the idea to not only put that on display, but to somehow also open up his strange collectors mind for public perusal. And thus, The Astounding Problem of Andrew Novick was conceived. Im trying to find a way to display his conundrum how he has all this amazing stuff, but he has to dig for three hours, through more amazing stuff, just to find it, says Baldwin. Novicks emptied his house for the astounding exhibition, which runs through May 12, when he might (but might not) decide to give some of it away.
Well keep yall posted, but for general details, visit www.belmarlab.org or call 303-934-1777.
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