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...receipts from places like Finagle A Bagel and Banana Republic. Taken individually, each receipt could be construed as the product of intense boredom, yet the line of barely recognizable receipts, each individually framed and centered on white paper, underscores how art can be found anywhere and created from anything, even a receipt from Marshalls...
...about that area but on what he projects onto it. The Orient and "Orientals" are seen, stereotypically, as the "Other": eccentric and backward, sensual and passive. Men are feminine, but also threatening; women are exotic and easily dominated. Images that portray the Orient from an exotic point of view, even if they are just landscapes, are said by scholars to be Orientalist...
...both hung up alongside it. Each of these is essentially the same, telling us how the piece contributes to the understanding of the individual enmeshed in the destructive forces of a materialist, male society. What really makes this annoying is that the Lois Foster Exhibition is ostensibly an even-handed survey of Boston-area art. In fact, it's a feminist art show-both the curators and all the artists were women and all these earnest bits of text ran along gender-political lines-that never comes out and calls itself a feminist art show...
Cydylo's work is even less innovative. She seeks, as she says in her artist's statement, "specific allusions to Victorian constraint and more generalized, surreal indications of social interaction," which translates, it seems, to lots of cut-out dresses in black and white stuck on walls. Cheap Mattisse cut-out imitations, maybe, but little more...
...saturate the art world. This didn't stop the curators from including Jocelyn Lee's work. The standard little girl wearing make-up, complete with dyed hair and a bikini, is by now tired and almost traditional. Lee presents nothing new; in fact, her contorted fruit photographs aren't even grotesque, but simply run-of-the-mill. She wishes for a contorted crab apple to signify the state of humanity in the modern world, beauty destroyed by convention and expectation. Such a perspective, unfortunately, has been taken a few too many times already, and Lee adds nothing to this overplayed...