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Thursday, October 23, 2003
Something to TalkAbout
While I'm mentioning calendar items, tonight is one of the Fleisher Challenge TalkAbouts, a discussion of what's on exhibit there, led by artist and critic Mary Murphy.
I've always liked the TalkAbouts, which start at 6:30 p.m., whether I liked the work on display or not, and Mary Murphy is consistently a good discussion leader. Besides, the crowd that shows up is usually pretty varied and unpredictable, and that, for me, is a reason to go.This Fleisher Challenge features sculptor Warren Holzman ("Small Victory" shown above), painter Jennifer Macdonald, who also offers a video here (shown right), and photographer Ahmed Salvador. (I'm sorry I can't include an image of Salvador's work, but my picture came out with a huge flash circle dead center--my fault, silly me).
Holzman's sculptures are amusing and horrifying at the same time--a giant metal pacifier to stuff into the bawling baby's mouth, with weld seams left visible, the intestinal stroller surmounting a concrete hill, a giant baby's head resting peacefully on a pallet, it's neck sealed off with some kind of industrial fastener, again the weld seams left visible.
The work brought to mind a cross between Todd Noe's tiny household mechanical objects pumped up to giant size, crossed with Phoebe Adams' creepier organic pieces.Macdonald's video, "The Lie and How We Told It," shows a young man eating and then un-eating strangely inert live birds, all in a rough cartoon style. My mind went from WIP's Wing Bowl to education to George Bush, all as my stomach heaved just as the young man dropped and turned into a green puddle. The paintings on mylar, mostly of disconnected house spaces and domestic patterns, proved a bit more puzzling, but the piggy paintings (one shown here) held an emotional undercurrent that worked for me.
Ahmed Salvador's C-prints are "manufactured views of the universe," said his artist's statement. Before I read that they were manufactured, I thought they were the real thing.The faculty exhibit of small, buttery portraits by painter Stanley Beilen is worth a look. I was captured by the unselfconscious gazes from "Amelia," "Andrew" (shown), and "Joe Dugan."
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