"BooBies," an art show on Fabric Row, has a particularly popular double-breasted focus.
"BooBies."
And Tim Bowen suspects that's just about all the information (and incentive) it will take to draw a crowd to his gallery, which opened in the spring on the stretch of Fourth Street south of South known as Fabric Row.
"The name makes the show possible," says Bowen, a painter and part-time indie-rock musician.
Breast is a bit too clinical, he says. And while a Web search easily turns up 200 or so other descriptors (not to mention pictures that, on second thought, should not be mentioned because they do not belong in an art gallery), most of those words are lurid, rude, insulting, disgusting ... you get the ... um, picture.
And none of those were Bowen's intentions. He got the idea for the show when he noticed that the most looked-at pictures in another recent exhibition at the gallery were the nudes.
"In fact, someone said to me that they liked the pictures of the boobies - and I realized what a great word that is."
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