plaster of Paris
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The show consists of life-size figures, cast from live models in gauze and plaster of Paris, arranged in installations on two floors of the gallery’s townhouse.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
"Looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand."
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022
Beal’s castle was a hallucinatory, improbable cascade of car bumpers, endless Busch beer cans, plaster of Paris archways embedded with abalone shells and dolls, rusted car wheels and driftwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
Hoyos: In biology, we have to buy plaster of Paris for experiments, to make models.
From Slate ● May 2, 2018
“This has plaster of Paris in it,” he tells me as he wraps.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
