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...Many vacant House Master positions are being filled by Jews. So is Hillel skank Tova K. Bergstein-Steinberg ’04?...
...Where Bergstein uses the surface to display his psyche, it seems as though Johnson is using surface for surface’s sake. Both offer different pastiches of personalized images, but Johnson distances his viewers by asserting that perhaps from his work, an understanding cannot be derived. Bergstein encourages his spectator to share in his mind. Consequently, the two artists align more visually than thematically. One out of two ain?...
...mythological tower. The vaguely phallic structure references the Biblical tale of the Babylonians who attempted to construct a tower that would ascend to the heavens. Despite the provocative titling, however, his monochromatic apocalypses are more concerned with “mortality, power and a vacuum,” as Bergstein told The Crimson at the exhibit’s opening. They possess a vibrating, quivering energy and darkly morbid overtones from penetrating lines...
...When Bergstein moves away from his studies in the second thematic section of this exhibit, he displays a lighter—if still self-reflexive—sensibility. Here Bergstein proffers up a series of unconventional self-portraits. Where traditionally a self-portrait concerns itself with external representations—and the artist’s internal state is then inferred from the image—here Bergstein directly represents the core of his being by covering an illustration of himself with a collage of images meaningful to him. As we would expect from...
...this exhibit’s ordered mess, Bergstein and Johnson meld because they are both “excessive imagists,” said Bergstein. “We love the body, cartoony images and horror.” To that, Johnson adds an attentive eye to detail. “I think we work very well,” said Johnson. “We’re both visually obsessive.” For Johnson, that form of obsession comes in the form of personal fetish in his exhibit titled “G-String Theophany: Adoration Series...