doll face

Once known as Doll Face in the MMA world, Rushing fought for a little more than a decade, starting with an amateur career at a North Carolina gym.

On Saturday the theater’s Boing! festival will include the premiere of “Doll Face Has a Party!,” based on the picture book written by Pam Conrad and illustrated by Brian Selznick.

Close and Craig-Martin brought together dozens of artists, from Lorna Simpson, who contributed a collage called The Bride, to Marilyn Minter, whose Doll Face depicts a close-up of a woman’s lips blowing out smoke, to Alex Katz’s portrait of a woman entitled Katherine.

On it, his young daughter has painted a doll face.

It was the Chinese doll face of my childhood, the face peering above fanned-out playing cards all those winter days, the face behind the mosquito net when we slept on the roof of my father’s house in the summer.