Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rothenberg first became noticed in New York in the mid-1970s, with a series of paintings that depicted -- of all things -- horses. Despite her other merits, she is no George Stubbs, and her horses were of a generic cast, crude silhouettes with a certain amount of texture and internal patterning...
These pieces are religious in their conception as well as their meaning. Lichacz dedicates all of her works to God. Before she begins a piece, she writes on the canvas the letters "AMDG," the abbreviation for the Latin phrase meaning "All for the honor and glory of God." She then...
The AIDS crisis has been the inspiration for countless works of art, and "Building a Collection" contains some of the most interesting pieces on that theme. The painting "AIDS Count I, 1988," created by Luis Cruz Azaceta, is an unmounted black canvas with a small figure in a coffin in...
Needless to say the phantoms of the village possessed me once. I lost orientation next to an experimental theatre, and by the time I orbited past an Algerian delicatessen mind-body severance was complete. As reality bade farewell, I sought refuge in an innocent looking private art gallery, specializing in...
THE SIX-NOVEL SERIES TALES OF THE City, with its interweaving cast of gay and straight characters, proved that Armistead Maupin was a master of the big canvas. Working on a smaller scale in MAYBE THE MOON (HarperCollins; $22), Maupin seems to have lost his sense of perspective. The story...