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2. Corrections.
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PERIODICAL articles , *ART , *ART exhibitions ,REVIEWS - Abstract
An art review on Friday about an exhibition at the George Adams Gallery in Manhattan referred incorrectly to some of the portraits by Alfred Leslie on display. They are graphite pencil on paper, not charcoal on paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
3. Michael Mazur.
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Glueck, Grace
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ART exhibitions , *ARTISTS - Abstract
The article presents information on the art exhibition by Michael Mazur in Manhattan. For one who started out under the spell of the gloomy graphic artist and sculptor Leonard Baskin, Mazur has come a distance. Primarily known as a printmaker, he is also a draftsman, sculptor and painter. The canvases and works on paper seem to have progressed beyond the Chinese influence to a looser, more open handling of paint and space. The resulting exuberance and canvases are less structured, their sunnier colors and freer linear forms floating in a limitless expanse.
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- 2004
4. Thomas Demand.
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Johnson, Ken
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PAINTING , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
The article presents information on the painting exhibition by Thomas Demand in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York. Demand's big color photographs of things that look real but turn out to be carefully constructed of paper, plastic and other inexpensive materials are as visually striking and philosophically provocative as ever. "Clearing," is a 17-foot-wide vision of a dense forest interior with sunlight steaming into the middle. That things so clearly fake can seem so vividly real propels the mind into deeper waters of thought, not only about how and what one can truly know about the world.
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- 2004
5. Douglas Florian: 'Letting in the Light'.
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Smith, Roberta
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
The artist and poet Douglas Florian is best known for writing and illustrating award-winning children's books that are wittily educational, especially about animals. Working in gouache with collage, he depicts just about anything with an impressive combination of accuracy and improvisation and is similarly free with language. Mr. Florian, who always works on paper bags, has shown in art galleries since 1985, presenting work that is generally more abstract if no less playful than his illustrations. Here his excellent eye for color shines, and an organic multiculturalism is given full expression. Tantra, Elizabeth Murray, maps, free-range calligraphy, Marimekko handmade wrapping paper and Gerhard Richter all come to mind in this show of 33 small paintings, most done this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
6. Crayons and Legos: A Designer's Tools.
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Wadler, Joyce
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
THURSDAY night is gallery trolling night in Chelsea, so it was not surprising last week to find a crowd upstairs at the Max Lang gallery, examining the early works of the interior designer Scott Sanders. Under the proud eye of the curator, Shirley Sanders, the crowd examined drawings like ''Self-Portrait With Rosy Cheeks,'' a crayon on paper, from 1969, which showed a grinning little boy in dark glasses who looked eerily like the 47-year-old Mr. Sanders looks today; ''Colonial Home,'' a ballpoint pen on paper, from 1977; and ''Mega Mansion,'' a marker-pen drawing on paper, from 1975, of a great house set on a hilly landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
7. Multilayered and Multicultural, Creative Views of the Muslim Head Scarf.
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Rosenberg, Karen
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS , *MUSLIMS , *FRENCH people - Abstract
The hijab, or Muslim head scarf, is supposed to deflect attention. So what should we make of the model wearing a leopard-print version and an eye patch? She's the creation of Princess Hijab, an anonymous Parisian street artist, who adorns women in advertisements with impromptu black-marker ''veils'' and papers public spaces with her own hipsterish ''Hijab Ads.'' The princess is the Shepard Fairey of the French Muslim world or maybe the Naomi Klein. Is she a ''hijabist''? Or even a Muslim? We don't know. But you can see some of her work in ''The Seen and the Hidden: [Dis]covering the Veil,'' at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Midtown Manhattan. The exhibition, which includes artists from Europe and the Middle East as well as American artists of diverse backgrounds, reminds New Yorkers that debates about the veil are heating up in many communities overseas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
8. Varied Female Archetypes, One Main Fixation.
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Rosenberg, Karen
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EXHIBITIONS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Let's get one thing straight: John Currin can draw, but he's no draftsman. His material attraction to paint -- whether in the glowing flesh of his Cranach-inspired nudes or the crude impasto complexions of more modern subjects -- is undeniable. And life drawing has a limited role in his practice, despite his oft-professed interest in the old masters and his self-consciousness about being a figurative painter. So a certain degree of skepticism may accompany a visit to ''John Currin: Works on Paper -- A Fifteen Year Survey of Women,'' at the Andrea Rosen Gallery. What can these 77 drawings, most from the 1990s, tell us about this much-dissected artist or his way of seeing the world that we don't already know, in richer and more compelling detail, from his paintings? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
9. Wide World Of Abstract Expressionism.
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ROBERTA SMITH
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ART exhibitions , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
''Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, 1945-1965'' has a portentous, this-will-change-everything title. The show itself, at the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea through Saturday, is a big grab bag. Capricious, uneven and at times overly homogenous, it mixes together unknown gems, golden oldies and undistinguished work. But while it may ultimately reinforce as much as shake up the canon it takes to task, its relatively unfiltered view of art history is a wonderful thing to sort through. The spacious Miller gallery is lined with a thoughtfully installed parade of more than 90 small paintings, paintings on paper and drawings by nearly 70 artists whose reputations run the gamut from unknown to world famous. Most of the works were made in New York in the late 1940s and '50s. But a handful of them fall outside the show's 1945-to-1965 time slot, confusingly broadening its span to 1930-78. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2008
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