Saundra Schwartzkopf’s “Mystical Graffiti” @ Broadway Gallery E Charleston Imagine worldswhere shapes become symbols not specific to any one dialogue but heard by all – saundra The composition itself becomes patterns of shape and color, lights and darksof a camouflage design. At first they seem frozen and almost still, a mentalsnapshot where each shape becomes […]

Dear Art in America: Letter on Thomas McEvilley’s Monochrome Math H. L. Resnikoff I formed my high regard for Thomas McEvilley’s illuminating insight andsolid scholarship when I read his “Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: ‘Primitivism’in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984,” so I wassurprised to see that, in his review (1) of […]

Lichtenstein on the Roof Harriet Zinnes To view art from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden of the MetropolitanMuseum of Art simply doubles the joy of viewing. Before one is the open sky inthe 10,000-square-foot open air space where uniquely tall buildings of the worldbecome airy decorative objects through spectacular views of Central […]

Michael Tracy: SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS Horace Brockington Michael Tracy remainsone of the most distinctive sculptors/artists of his generation. Extremely private,but equally intense during the 80s and early 90s Michael Tracy created a bodyof sculpture that defied the minimalism and conceptual tendencies of the time.Tracy has lived in Texas for much of his life. Since l978 […]

Dorota Weizczorek Isabel Sampedro and Agustina O’Farrell “The only rules I am breaking are my own.” said the photographer, DorotaWeizczorek as she reflected upon her solo exhibition at the 473 Broadway Gallery,April 2003. The reasoning behind her statement may be that she was the subjectof display: fifteen large self-portraits revealed her in different states ofmind […]

David DeSimone- LIVES ON STAGE Isabel Sampedro & Agustina O’Farrell David DeSimone celebrates his first solo exhibition in New York City, May 2003,with fourteen technically innovative paintings. Although he confesses his artworkis the conventional “oil on canvas,” this approach transcended thetraditional when he discovered the industrial material of Plexiglas. His primaryconceptual twist is the combination […]

Gabriela Machado Red (Suspended) @ Neuhoff Gallery James Kalm The practice of painting begins with a series of choices. Why paint? What to paint? How to paint? What color to use? What medium, and so forth. Deciphering these patterns of decisions, as well as their relevance to the perceived imperatives of creation, are elemental factors that […]

Glasgow School of Art Faculty Exhibition @ Hunter College Jeffrey Mongrain This group facultyexhibition from one of the premier British art schools demonstrates the distinctrelationship of quality teaching to personal practice. The Exhibit consistentlyshows works that are well crafted, intelligent and rooted in the academy. Looking, for instance,at Barry Atherton’s sensitive architectural studies one can […]

The Evergreen Will Jennifer Reeves Human will commits violence even as it seeks to honor life. It destroys the gardenof individual hopes even as it wishes to preserve them. This Garden of Eden flowerswith falsity. Serpents talk and fog pretends to be a sunny day. The foliage ofself-knowledge is chopped down and spiritual growth is […]

Nature and Art: Goldsworthy and Tyler John Eischeid If the earth were made of foam and resin, and if we saw only through the eyesof a camera, then the world would look much like Mike Tyler’s apparentlyunnamed exhibition currently at Location One. If the world had none of thesethings, and we were living with nearly […]