Creative solitude is something I think all visual artists need and enjoy to some degree.  Our tribe is like those proverbial cats that are not given to herding. As a collection of individuals we don’t organize easily. There is something unique about making art that has much to do with singular control over both process and result. Other facets play into this too which include how time is impacted and the opportunity to be true to our natures.  When I paint there is no role I have to play, no one to impress or appease, in short, no one I have to answer to except my muse.  Unlike Batman I’m no vigilante crime fighter striving for good.  But like Batman I have my secrets to keep, my private mission to accomplish and a striving for good albeit on my terms.

This review represents the third I’ve written on David Rabinotwitch’s work and with each show I’ve found something new and wonderful (including this one).  Yet I also find it a bit peculiar that each exhibition has included work from the 60s and early 70s which prompted me to inquire of the gallery if he was still making art.  Indeed he is and so now I’m curious to see what the contemporary work is like in comparison. Hopefully the next show will provide a view of it.

David Rabinowitch, Peter Blum Gallery

David Rabinowitch, Peter Blum Gallery

Contemporary work aside, what of the current exhibition?  As pointed out in past reviews Rabinowitch is perhaps best known as a sculptor but his works on paper prove he is able to deliver in 2 dimensions as well. (Yet it must be pointed out that even his 3D work stays mighty close to 2D).  This show is a marvelous presentation of these dual capabilities with neither overpowering the other.  It might be easy to see the sculpture as the stronger suit with the advantages it has.  These heavy dark metal objects are shaped into