North Adams, MA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art The best way to appraise art is to immerse oneself in its sensory input without resorting to labels, explanations, and artists’ statements, any of which tend to distract and dilute.
Olivia Bernard
Amherst, Massachusetts For the past couple of decades…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Claiming the Source: Michele Oka Doner
You don’t have to look far for the origins of Michele Oka Doner’s work. As a child in Miami Beach, she fed on the “flotsam and jetsam of animal and mineral life,” and in turn….see the full feature in July/August’s magazine.
Fragments of Meaning: Zvika Lachman
Zvika Lachman’s passion as an artist is refined, austere, and articulate. He is a self-possessed artist, an artist who comprehends his own sense of being in relation to others….see the full feature in July/August’s magazine.
Spiral Jetty: The Re-Emergence
Seen from a hilltop at the north end of the Great Salt Lake, open-range grass and sagebrush stretch north, the pastel Wasatch Mountains lie low along the eastern skyline, and distant islands float in mirages to the south and west.
Sharon Que
Rochester, Michigan Sharon Que has developed an expansive…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir
by Tom Marioni, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2003. Introduction by Thomas McEvilley. 223 pp. With illustrations by the author The subtitle and leading epigraph to Tom Marioni’s memoir, Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir is appropriately, “The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.”
“The Paper Sculpture Show”
Long Island City, NY SculptureCenter All of us have probably made a few paper airplanes or tried our hand at origami, but this innovative exhibition “The Paper Sculpture Show” lets loose 29 contemporary artists to come up with inventive ways you can turn ordinary sheets of paper into sculpture.
Tomoaki Suzuki
New York At first glance, the gallery looked…see the full review in June’s magazine.
