Dore Bowen University of Rochester Dore Bowen earned her BA in Media Studies from the Evergreen State College, her MA in Interdisciplinary Art from San Francisco University, and is currently working towards a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.  Bowen has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester. Bowen’s artwork approaches irony with the use of hyperbole, scale, juxtaposition and miniaturization in relation to small toys, forms which are used rhetorically to (de)emphasize and (de)familiarize cultural values; seeking to disrupt the normative reading of these childish objects in order to create new readings.  In her latest series she addresses such issues as the hegemonic construction of “family life,” adapting surrealist strategies to “make strange” notions of cultural normativity.