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Ouattara takes on the world in his own lyric voice. His command of color, the way that he draws and the speed of his mark-making break open the secrets of rhythm and beauty. At this writing he is arguably one of the most exciting artists in America. He takes on the world as his subject matter: geo-politics, an enigmatic jazz star, Kline-like slashing diagonals, allusions to classical African clay architecture, and even an homage to Baudelaire.
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In Ozeri's paintings the hair is the link between woman and nature, abstraction and realistic portrayal. Here, Ozeri is drawing from the pictorial developments of Albrecht Dürer that awarded key status and imperative significance to the tiniest brush stroke. The American master Andrew Wyeth himself follows in these footsteps, amplifying the lightest brush stroke with the use of tiny brushes. The works in Gensis also depict traces of the finest line. Ozeri creates expressively realistic, yet multifaceted abstract paintings by employing a dense grid of condensed lines, allowing the figurative and the abstract qualities to maintain their independence.
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Upon viewing the painterly excess of Austrian-born artist Hermann Nitsch, for the first time, one may want to ask the following: What are these blood-stained canvases mixed with primary pigments trying to symbolize? After a few minutes with the work, it soon becomes apparent that Nitsch is not exactly a light-hearted provocateur. For those who have participated in his theatrical happenings at the Schloss Prinzendorf in northern Austria where his paintings are produced, Nitsch-who wears a black suit with a gray beard in the manner of Brahms-orchestrates something more than a conventional performance or installation. His paintings are the result of a massive theatre project, involving the coordination of many people.
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There are, in the world of tattooing, certain images which have been repeated, with some slight variations, for decades, on thousands of bodies. One of the more famous is called Man's Ruin. It always features a woman, sometimes she's a demon, sometimes simply a femme fatale. She's riding a liquor bottle or lounging in a cocktail glass, maybe she's doing drugs too. There are always playing cards, sometimes a busted straight, sometimes just a single card, like a suicide king or a red queen. The tattoo isn't so much a symbol as it is a network: of habits, vices feeding into one another, repeating until it's impossible to do so anymore.
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Sofi Zezmer aims for immaculacy-an impression reinforced by the use of perfectly sterile medical implements ordered straight from the catalogue. The intravenous tubes and air pipes she handles refer to passage, and thus to time and the stages of life. One imagines hearing the sounds of pumps, heavy breathing and running or dripping fluids, when in the presence of some of her organic constructions. Zezmer is interested both in the transience of open structural systems and in the fleeting quality of individual experiences. Surprisingly, these undertones underlie an art that can be remarkably sensuous and even outright joyful.
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One drifts effortlessly into Tony Magar's new abstract paintings, for these works suggest fluid, open spaces- ethers where things are in a state of perpetual flux. The nature of these fictive spaces is not instantly apparent however, for cursive looking discloses surfaces that at first seem opaque. Prolonged contemplation is infinitely more rewarding, for only then do the top glazes of oil reveal themselves to be translucent, disclosing layer after layer of paint- often of a different tone or color- buried underneath them. What results, is immeasurable pictorial depth.
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Stegner stylistically employs imagery and compositional devices that allude to 18th and 19th century allegory and history painting. In often-barren landscapes, Stegner places a cast of characters that represent male authority figures and unchecked passion. These figural elements reference a tradition that extends from the mannerist work of El Greco, through the psychological realism of Lucian Freud to such 1950's social satirists as Jack Levine. The results are pictures shrouded in incongruity whose imageries are tinged with a sense of engagement that lends them an air of both humor and anxiety. It is these mixed messages that in turn cajole us into puzzling out the meanings of their symbolically loaded components.
JANSSON STEGNER
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The cultural movement of the 1960's was a Luciferic rebellion from modern mechanization. Clearly, when Mick Jagger expressed "Sympathy for the Devil," it was Lucifer, not Ahirman, who inspired him. Gordon Terry's work is a loving homage to this velvety, Satanic influence. Like a botanist of the imaginable, he breeds and archives hallucinogenic dream-portals that reference psychedelia and the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke. The finished works resemble tableaux of hashish fantasias, profane illuminations, or photographic vistas onto different sectors of the astral plane. His work explores a counter-cultural narrative of illumination, enchantment, and escape.
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Nicky Nodjoumi is a satirist with an ironic, cerebral sense of humor who follows the course that Max Ernst once expounded as "coupling two realities which apparently cannot be couple, on a plane which is apparently not appropriate to them." Within this realm, Nodjoumi would not only deride Iranian mullahs, but American leaders and corporate characters, as well as religious and sexual taboos, science and rationalism. And yet, despite the apparent political load of his narrative, one cannot help but presume that his images have been devoid of a clear meaning, as if Nodjoumi would have set up a strategy to defuse it. In truth, what has been characterized as Nodjoumi's "subversive symbolism" helps him neutralize the limited political dimension of the image to ultimately display an emotional and enigmatic scenario.
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It is at once the chaos of Postmodernism and the timelessness of the unconscious: biomorphic semi-abstractions float among linoleum and fabric patterns, snakes and worms erupt in wiggling masses, dragged scumbled colors intrude into geometric spaces while scribbles of unpredictable lines float about among Chinese calligraphy, African heads and figures, often upside down-for this is a place where there is no clear up and down; the space has depth but no perspective, it can contain more or less anything, going in any direction anywhere. It is the underworld of both the mind and the afterlife. These paintings are visions that DeCredico brings back from there, having stolen them from the dead. At the same time his work reaches its climacteric (these are the best paintings he has made), their contents reach the depths, plunging into the abyss and wresting from its darkness a way to see.
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The Watcher Paintings are about vigilance, about apertures, about the act of looking and about healing oneself through acute self-observation. At the core is a studio window, through which he obsessively watches, day in, day out, in sunlight, shadow and moonlight, and is, in turn, silently watched by sphinxlike pigeons. His window frames another window in a derelict turn-of-the-century building, through which can be seen yet a third window; an image that is both urban and apocalyptic, banal and haunting: Hopper paintings as ghost stories. Ozeri spent 13 months minutely observing every nuance of this deceptively simple splinter of cityscape.
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John Newsom's paintings, like Dürer's or Bosch's, closely mirror the ideas of his day. Only now, instead of religious salvation and apocalypse, or Renaissance Humanism, artists are confronted with other paradigms: science, environmentalism, technology, and a classification of the natural world reproduced, of all places, in the realm of aesthetic modernism. But while other artists explore the way animal and human fates are intertwined or the devastating effects of humans in the course of their imperial migrations, Newsom is more interested in how dramas in the animal kingdom-survival, loss, reproduction, even love serve as allegories for the human realm.
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The cycle of the seasons - spring, summer, autumn and winter - is often used to represent the course of human life, from birth to death. The cyclical pattern of the seasons' annual recurrence is also characteristic of human thought patterns. Thus it is not surprising that this combination has, from time immemorial, enriched the work of many artists who have personified the seasons of the year as the different stages of man…An important breakthrough in Yigal Ozeri's work in recent years is discernible in his Four Seasons (2003), which masterfully illustrates the transformation he underwent in 2002, during whose four seasons he became extra attentive to nature.
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At this very moment, certain photographers are printing their images onto canvases in order to achieve the illusion of paintings. The boundaries between painting and photography are dissolving indeed, as photographers use Photoshop to digitally tweak forms, surfaces, colors and tones, as if they were painters. Yigal Ozeri, on the other hand, carries on his project of developing a type of painting that successfully evokes a variety of the sensations that are achieved through photography. However, he wants it both ways, as he slips with ever-greater ease from effects that are characteristic of painting to those that are inherent to photography, often within the same composition.
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