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Entitled “Three Women,” the show will display six paintings that have never before been shown in the same museum exhibit. The show will also be one of the first to highlight the artist??s early works—completed before he burst onto the Parisian art scene in 1891 with his print of the Moulin Rouge...
...even when the books do have content, the “reader’s” attention is inexorably drawn towards the visual aspects of the presentation—a tendency of which the artists seem fully aware, and even to embrace. McCarthy, for instance, says in her artist??s statement that “text is not a dominant feature of my books, though I will include hand written words, phrases, or poems...
Catherine Murphy’s “Cardboard Palette” (2001), which seems utterly different from the others, corresponds indirectly in that it is a trompe l’oeil residue of the painting process. This enlargement of the artist??s palette, with its convincing globs of paint and glistening highlights, morphs into a created landscape of its own equipped with ridges, valleys and plains...
...work give way to thoughts on human relationships—conception, filial ties and friendships. While suggested by the pure form of her sculptures, von Rydingsvard also explicitly references these subjects through titles. The name of the monolithic, honeycombed work “For Paul” references the artist??s husband. “Mama, Your Legs” harkens to something more elemental, as the artist herself has commented...
Several weeks ago during my introductory cell biology course, my professor interrupted the usual drone about the fascinating world of cellular processes with a picture of Alba, a fluorescent green rabbit. The professor showed Alba—the brainchild of a sick-minded conceptual artist??to raise the ethical question of whether it is acceptable to genetically engineer animals for artwork. But no sooner did he get a perfunctory guffaw from the class for effect, than he gave a brief exhortation to the class to go home and think about the interesting ethical dilemma of engineering life...