Word: abstractions
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...inequality in America. His confidence often seems to falter when he talks about “hot” topics. On the issue of affirmative action, for example, he couches his debate in a theoretical “thought experiment” (a real-world example considered in the abstract), then skirts the issue, then makes a revealing comment about why he has danced around the point: “I desperately want to avoid having the far-reaching implications of my argument projected onto the narrow and partisan ground of the debate over racial preferences...
...sharp contrast to Dumala’s meticulous lines are the collages by Jackie Brookner, environmental artist and writer (VES 130abr, “The Language of Sculpture”). Brookner is undeniably the most abstract artist of the five; the content of her art seems almost indecipherable except for what appears to be a droopy, lethargic tongue on the floor in the middle of the gallery. A sculpture whose subject is clearly suggested by the witty title, “AHHH,” the red velvet tongue spills forth from an arched, wooden “mouth?...
...Other artists chose to take more abstract approaches in an effort to capture their emotions or address the larger issues. In a collection otherwise entirely printed in black and white, the single exception belongs to Will Eisner's page-sized panel of an old man watching the burnt out towers on television as a red trickle of blood drips from the screen. Nick Bertozzi's piece has a man rush to the emergency room when a tiny plane lodges itself in his temple. But my favorite work, "Treasure," by Gregory Benton, tells of a neighbor's child staying over...
...that Eichmann, bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin and all the other petty yet charismatic men of history who committed such heinous acts had three things in common: they were fanatics; they organized others to do their dirty work; and, most crucial, they were not supernormal madmen--not Satan, not some abstract species of evil--but merely human. SHERYL R. RIELING Aylett...
...does illuminate his later work, which is so well known that it informs any consideration of the exhibition, the show presents the diversity, quality, and quantity of Rothko’s figurative work, which perhaps could have become a career in itself had it not been overshadowed by his abstract paintings...