Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Zakanych exhibited at Reese Palley last November, and a new artist of singular grace and power seemed to have arrived. Praised as a colorist, Zakanych-a solidly built, Midwestern-looking 36-year-old who actually hails from New Jersey-denies the classification: "People are always trying to tell me I'm a color painter. In fact my work is just about painting." Nevertheless, color is the overriding content and subject of Zakanych's work. He manipulates it with stunning precision, by dividing the canvas with a grid of close rectangular intervals and then producing tiny, almost imperceptible...
...raise the dead, because, he says, "They're murderous with rage at the one who disturbed their state." He knows better, however. Offered the road to sainthood, he declines: "The truth is that I'd gain nothing by being a saint after being dead; an artist is what I am." And he actually manages to live forever. ·Martha Duffy
...McCarthy campaign (Peter Yarrow is married to Mary Beth McCarthy). Last year, the three broke up, and last month's release of Peter Yarrow's solo album completed a series of debut solo efforts in which each has tried to project more clearly his or her individuality as an artist and performer...
...didn't write a book in the ordinary sense of the word, neither was it outside of the American tradition. His reasons for rushing away from America to Europe was the landscape where the mature man was reborn out of the material of his old sorrows, in which the artist and man were merged and not forced to war with one another, the point at which he ceased to live for values he had not created...
...reflect me even better than my own words." In fact, Miller looks like he's just been plucked out of formaldehyde. Like a medical specimen preserved for its representative qualities. Miller has been yanked off the shelf to be a symbol of something Smith's readers need, the rebel artist and the great sexual emancipator. But the photographs reveal him gliding into dotage, the dried up version of the former volcano. Smith's a pictures reach a crescendo of inanity with a shot of Miller playing ping pong with a naked Playmate...