For 'Mickey Hardwired', McClure's gathered and arranged an army of recognizable, yet foreign Mickeys from which the soft outer layer and inner voice mechanisms had been eliminated by the artist.

Seattle metalsmith-artist Cathy McClure's stripped-down bronze-armatured motor-driven former-plush-toy mechanisms.

“Her process for creating the bots is deceptively simple — by taking the fur off of the battery-powered toy animals and recasting them in silver or bronze, McClure can reassemble them into little metallic clanking gargoyles. Without their fur and with metal bones instead of plastic, the movements become stiffer and audibly rickety, like the cymbal-banging monkey in a Stephen King story.” - Laura Hutson, Nashville Scene"

"An installation of three zoetropes features ear-flapping, trunk-waving elephants slowly circling stainless-steel Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds—the flashing strobe lights and minor-key music leaven big-eyed cuteness with glitzy dystopia." -R.C. Baker, Village Voice

Mickey Twelve-Pack vs Mickey Six-Pack is part of the Moss exhibit MICKEY HARDWIRED, in which McClure wires an army of twelve of her Mickeys together facing an army of six so that their programmed movements are synchronized. As aligned as she can get them, each Mickey pack quickly veers from the embedded movement patterns and chaos ensues.

You’ll never look at those cute little mechanical stuffed bunnies the same way again. On Thursday, Moss unveils Remains, an exhibition by the artist Cathy McClure, whose particular passion is taking these mass-produced, eminently disposable items and redesigning them as precious objects." PILAR VILADAS - New York Times