"We can lie in the language of dress, or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked or bald it is impossible to be silent." Alison Lurie

MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
WALLFLOWER in-progress 2007
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
WALLFLOWER 2007
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate Private Collection
WALLFLOWER 2008
Calo Gallery, Stonehill College, MA
Private Collection
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
COLLABORATION:Dress of Possibilities (front)
2207, Collection of Stonehill College, recto
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
COLLABORATION:Dress of Possibilities (back)
2007, Collection of Stonehill College, verso
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
CRUSHED/UNCRUSHED 2008
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
SECOND SKIN 2008
Private Collection
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
ALONE/TOGETHER 2008
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
CRUSHED/UNCRUSHED 2008
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
(AM I) BLUE 2008
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
ABSENCE/PRESENCE Installation 2009
Prov Op Gallery, Providence, RI
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
Detail: ABSENCE/PRESENCE
MARYJEAN  VIANO  CROWE CLOTH: Metaphor & Surrogate
(you) SEE-THROUGH (me)
DRESS/REDRESS Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University

We've all heard the saying "clothes make the man" (and the woman for that matter). But what does our wardrobe really say about who we are? The Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis set out to answer that question in a recent art exhibition called "Dress Redress." 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA7Mu7MMFr4