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Maria Anderson In Conversation with Michael Brennan

In one of his poems, Charles Simic talks about stopping before a closed butcher shop on a late-night walk, where “There are knives that glitter like altars/ in a dark church.” Michael Brennan’s new razor paintings have this feel to them, that of wandering your neighborhood after dark and making it strange again and again. […]

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Vincent Como at Minus Space

Vincent Como has channeled John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) in his new series of black monochrome paintings. The small scale paintings are illuminated by varying numbers of candles installed on shelves below the paintings. Como uses classical oil painting methods which result in a highly reflective surface consequently exhibiting faint traces of heat, […]

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