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Steve Keister has two installation pieces in this show that comprise small interlocking objects. Each literally ‘plays’ with a sense of order while also providing a gentle quality of humor in this otherwise very serious show. The humor is derived from the way in which the objects, small interlocking ceramic forms, tuck themselves into out of way places. The older of the two pieces rings the gallery floor where walls meet it. The later piece is placed under one of the stairs leading down to gallery and comes as a surprise on the way out. There is a sweet child-like innocence to this work which is every bit as universal and important as any of the other concepts presented. |
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Finally Carol Salmanson’s two lighted boxes stand out uniquely from the rest of the work given the medium while also bringing us full circle to La Rocco’s essay. In it He also discusses the effect of Times Square and its effect on time as major distraction to death, the tomb if you will, for the ‘Corpse of Time’. Yet Salmanson’s pieces manage to capture the excitement of those lights in the Times |
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Carol Salmanson, Split Screen (Yellow) & Split Screen (Red), 2007, LEDs, fluorescents, reflective sheeting, steel, gel filters, each: 31 x 17.5 x 5 in |
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Square area while also completely abstracting and extracting its exhilarating essence. In the end it is this work that provides an excellent bridge between the two concepts laid out in the essay. |
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Steve Keister, Frieze I, 2007, earthenware with acrylic |
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Scott Richter, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, 529 West 20th street to July 20 |
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This show marks a major departure for Scott Richter whose earlier work combined the carnality of oil paint in the extreme with the concept of employing it as a quirky sculptural medium. Richter exercised and eventually exhausted that concept but even in the last exhibition I reviewed he was beginning to introduce recognizable, albeit idiosyncratic, imagery in the work. With this show he has permanently abandoned the earlier agenda and shifted to these small, relatively conventional (as |
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Portrait (American Gothic), 2007, acrylic on paper on wool rug, 9.5 x 17.75 in |
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