Tristin Lowe's "Mocha Dick" Exhibition August 30, 2011

Tristin Lowe’s sculpture Mocha Dick is a fifty-two-feet-long recreation of the real-life albino sperm whale that terrorized early 19th-century whaling vessels near Mocha Island in the South Pacific and inspired Herman Melville’s epic Moby-Dick (1851). Lowe worked with the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia to make the sculpture: a large-scale vinyl inflatable understructure sheathed in white industrial felt. Admission is free and it will be open July 23 - November 27, 2011.

Official Website: http://www.vmfa.museum/Exhibitions/Tristin-Lowe/