ELEANOR HARWOOD - CATHARINE CLARK
BRIAN GROSS - JACK FISCHER - GEORGE LAWSON
01.10.15 Part I
(with assistance from RWM)
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Eleanor Harwood Gallery : Francesca Pastine - Totem.
Review by RWM: Fun anthropological experiences with Totems old and contemporary. Interesting to be in the presence of these foreign beings not all from other cultures. The show makes the world a smaller place, even without cell phones.
Comment by AB: Francesca Pastine uses Northwest Coast tribal art as her inspiration for these fabulous carved Artforum Magazine sculptures and her muted achromatic photographs of similar compositions created out of cut and reconfigured pages from The New York Times. Worth seeing.
Artforum magazine art by Francesca Pastine at Eleanor Harwood Gallery.
Cut carved Artforum magazine inspired by Northwest Coast tribal art.
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Francesca Pastine (center) and her art at Eleanor Harwood Gallery.
Shout out to Damien Hirst c/o cut Artforum magazines by Francesca Pastine.
Reconfigured & photographed New York Times pages by Francesca Pastine.
Cut & carved Artforum art by Francesca Pastine.
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Catharine Clark Gallery : Garble.
Artists: Sandow Birk, Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute, Nina Katchadourian, LigoranoReese, Walter Robinson, John Slepian.
Comment by AB: This one's all about text as applied or incorporated into art, both in print and audibly. Stop on by.
Barcode art by Walter Robinson at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Exquisite ink drawings by Sandow Birk (like 'em).
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L-R, Andy Diaz Hope & Sandow Birk at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Reference-related art by John Slepian.
Fictitious book page art by Anthony Discenza.
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Sound sculpture by Anthony Discenza.
Combined book spine photographs by Nina Katchadourian.
Bogus telegram art by Charles Gute.
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"The Future" in melting ice - video by LigoranoReese.
Attendance figures - group art show at Catharine Clark Gallery.
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Brian Gross Fine Art : Andrea Way - Off the Grid.
Comment by AB: Delicate weblike works on paper get better and better the closer in you get.
Intricate art by Andrea Way at Brian Gross Fine Art.
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Andrea Way and her art at Brian Gross Fine Art.
Art by Andrea Way.
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Layout - Andrea Way art show at Brian Gross Fine Art.
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Jack Fischer Gallery : Undercurrents - Deborah Barrett and Gina Pearlin.
Review by RWM: Strange quirky pictures from Deborah Barrett. The art work reminds me of the psychedelic sixties with all sorts of weird compositions created here. Same effect in the black & white works. Wonderful show for encounters with beings which might only exist in the recesses of the mind. Some of us might have even met some of them before.
Comment by AB: Deborah Barrett's collaged portraits and figures of Middle Eastern women are particularly notable, but it's all good here.
Deborah Barrett and her art at Jack Fischer Gallery.
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Collage art by Deborah Barrett.
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Middle Eastern woman collage by Deborah Barrett (like it).
Art by Gina Pearlin.
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Gina Pearlin art.
Long view - Deborah Barrett and Gina Pearlin art show at Jack Fischer Gallery.
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George Lawson Gallery : Pegan Brooke; Alma Chaney - 4 Paintings.
Comment by AB: In the front gallery, Pegan Brooke regiments individual brushstrokes in such a way that considered from a certain perspective, her paintings practically read like text. In the more intimate rear gallery, one painting per wall provides viewers with the visual equivalent of a quadraphonic experience.
Art by Pegan Brooke at George Lawson Gallery.
Pegan Brooke art.
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Art by Alma Chaney.
Alma Chaney art.
Demographics - Pegan Brooke and Alma Chaney art show at George Lawson Gallery.
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