Judy Fox’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Sins’

This ain't no Disney cartoon.

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Anger, left, 2007.

Last Thursday, Manhattan's PPOW gallery unveiled Judy Fox's "Snow White and the Seven Sins," a collection of hand-painted terracotta sculptures that play upon and pervert the Disney classic. Snow White is recognizable—alabaster skin, ebony locks, poisoned. Fox strays from the classic—and returns to its very Grimm roots, indeed—with the dwarves, who, collectively, represent the seven deadly sins. The tableau is at once unsettling and captivating, an uncomfortable combination of familiarity and visceral disgust. There's something of William Blake's Songs of Innocence And Experience in Fox's oddly compelling sculptures. Except, of course, with almost pornographic, slug-like monstrosities. —N.H.