With so many rabbit holes to fall down, it’s best to find one with a hookah-smoking caterpillar, painted bodies and Wonderlandian drinks to help taint logic while discussing the idea that it’s eternally 6 p.m. somewhere.
At Skin City Body Painting (inside Naked City Studios) this First Friday, Las Vegas artists take on the nonsensical underworld of Lewis Carroll in a themed party/art exhibit that can only be pulled off by Robin Barcus Slonina, artist and owner of Skin City (and judge on reality show Skin Wars).
Down the Rabbit Hole follows her Wonder Woman group show two years ago, in which local artists and creatives—including Absinthe’s Gazillionaire (Voki Kalfayan) and Penny Pibbets (Anais Thomassian)—created works on the superheroine. This year’s event includes work by 42 Las Vegas artists of varying disciplines, including a full-sized “Whack-A-Wabbit” sculpture by Steven Horlock. Former Le Rêve flamenco dancer David Oliveri will perform guitar while models, painted as characters from the fairy tale including a hookah-filling caterpillar, roam Wonderland.
As Barcus Slonina says, “You can literally smoke with the caterpillar.”
Down the Rabbit Hole December 5, 6-10 p.m., free. Skin City Body Painting, 1800 Industrial Road, 702-431-7546.
