Dresses to impress

Summer vacation is over. Sorry, gang. But perhaps that is why so many galleries around town have stepped up and scheduled exceptional exhibitions for September, not to mention that Sac Open Studios is happening—where the public is invited into artists’ studios all over the region for two weekends of the month. One place to visit studios is in the Verge Center for the Arts, where the gallery is also exhibiting the ambitious work of Los Angeles-based artist Mary Younakof. Her 343 Dresses: The Chromatic Convergence Project consists of 343 dresses she made in just as many hues. Younakof wore the tulip-skirted dresses all over Los Angeles juxtaposed against matching walls, looking childlike and the picture of innocence in ordinary places, making them look extraordinary.