Kitty White just turned 40-something, and before she ends up looking like Baby Jane Hudson, it's time to update her image. Hello Kitty, as the iconic Sanrio character is better known, gets a makeover in the third annual "Hello City" show. Some artists squeeze her into a borrowed persona: Maria Motta envisions her as Frida Kahlo, riffing on Nickolas Muray's White Bench portrait, while Jocelyn Valentine Jones costumes her as Sailor Moon. Others elevate her to a higher plane. Carlo Fantin is known for exquisite hand-cut paper art like Our Lady of Hashtags, mocking that which a too-modern world holds sacred. In his contribution, Kitty Angels and Demons, good and bad kitties whisper into the ears of the Virgin Mary. And in Mark Adamusik's brilliant sketch, Hello Kitty passes through states of matter: melting and hard as diamond, terran and interstellar, and radiating love as energy.
"Hello City" starts at 6 p.m. and continues through Monday at Art Attack SF, 2722A Hyde St., S.F. Free; 814-3136 or artattacksf.com.
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