Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is little money to be had in sheepdog trialing; even the richest purses fail to break $3,000. Nor, for the less than dangerous, is there much glory. "You get knocked down," says Adrienne Paier Wienir, 55, an artist from Encino, displaying a fresh bruise on her forehead. "You get covered with dust and sheep snot...
...cannot leave the exhibit without considering the monumental wall of Spanish Dancer paintings. What is significant in this series is the relationship of the subject to the background. She handles color in the grounds with the expertise of a mature artist- one could stare all day at her miraculous combinations of streaks of yellows, greens, warm browns and cool blue-grays. Rothenberg knows how to paint a truly beautiful ground, but still more remarkable is the way she deals with the relationship of the figure to that ground. In these paintings, the dancer is certainly the figure, yet her body...
...compelling, if sometimes confusing, compositions in which Rothenberg attempts to reconcile several different viewpoints within the same painting. She experiments and takes chances, which conveys an excitement and a curiosity that makes these paintings successful. To see this experimental quality combined with the facility of an artist who really knows how to paint, how to exploit her medium and make oil paint do things you never thought it could do, makes this exhibit relevant, important and pleasurable to behold...
...exhibition, titled "Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie, Photographs and Public Projects, 1992-1998," is the first retrospective of the artist's work and encompasses several of his European installations, as well as his most recent offerings in San Francisco and New York...
...routes, so that water and light become working metaphors of representation and remembrance. The piece also thematizes the more recent and problematic immigration of refugees from the Balkans and former Soviet Union seeking asylum in Denmark. More personal is the series Untitled Memory (Projections), in which photographs of the artist's family and friends are cast upon the surfaces of his San Francisco apartment, creating an intimate and deceptively real experience...