Monthly Archives: June 2007

Rites of passage observed.

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 by Alex
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[I am trying to view more art]: Larry Chait.

Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 by Alex

My default response to the term “landscape” is a grimace, or a yawn, but I am always intrigued by images in said genre that elicite a contrasting reaction. The vibrancy of Chait’s series Motion and Memory: Impressions of the Rural … Continue reading →

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A glance past preschool glass, nocturnal.

Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2007 by Alex
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[I am trying to view more art]: Elke Morris.

Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2007 by Alex

Some weeks ago I came across Elke Morris’s photographs of houses; for days straight I could not stop staring at the structure of Domicile I (below), glowing within my computer screen. …they look like toys, like internally sunlit dioramas. Homes … Continue reading →

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Everything is charged.

Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 by Alex

“There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive.” – Italo … Continue reading →

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[I am trying to view more art]: Spencer Finch.

Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 by Alex

I discovered a great love for the work of Ken Fandell a few years ago. His goofy, longwinded, often descriptive and, well, accurate, titles (they certainly invoke a thoughtful introspection) hang onto and compound the meaning of simple, bright, beautiful … Continue reading →

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All this reunion-related nonsense.

Posted on Saturday, June 9, 2007 by Alex

“…I’ll keep you posted on all this reunion-related nonsense. Hey, I know everybody’s coming back to take stock of their lives. You know what I say, leave your livestock alone.” — Minnie Driver as Debi, Gross Pointe Blank.

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[I am trying to view more art]: Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison.

Posted on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 by Alex

I was surprised to discover that Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison have introduced an understated set of color tones to their newest work — an unexpected shift from the methodically realized sepia otherworld they’d carefully constructed in photogravure for over a … Continue reading →

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