Head to Head

.I first saw Mindy Shapero’s work at Art Basel Miami in 2007 (left), at the booth of the the Athens-based gallery, The Breeder. It was a huge black ball—more like a boulder, really—embellished with beads and shiny trinkets. The other side was concave, its gold-leafed surface painted with three ovals, like eyes and mouth. The work was organic and mysteriously familiar; at the same time it was one