Word: depths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This collection of twenty-four photographs by artist Nancy Royal is arresting for the first eight or nine pictures but redundant after 15 or 16. Any students with some spare time over spring break should trot along the balcony and gaze at them, but those seeking exhibits with depth should go elsewhere...
...photographs are valuble because they remind us that the camera does not directly record "reality." The camera's technological capabilities can be used equally to distort and manipulate the "reality" the lens captures. This dynamic is interesting, but in general the exhibit is dull. Royal needs to add more depth to her photographic work by varying her subjects and technique...
...members of last year's varsity boat who have returned to row this year are Amy Constable, Rosie Hyson, Susie Mahan, Kristi Stoddard, Aoibheann Sweeney and Cecile Ulbrich. But the team's depth may be the key to its success this year...
...work (for Americans) was White Square on White, 1918 -- that unreproducible, fierce, magical white square, canted on a slightly warmer white ground, which has been in the Museum of Modern Art since the '30s and has become a central icon of the reductive impulse. But now we see in depth what went before and came after it: a fascinating spectacle...
...sculpture was basically too material an art for Popova. A gifted colorist, she wanted to explore what illusions of visual depth and energy a flat surface could contain. One sees this ambition unfolding phase by phase with a steadfast, though unprogrammed, logic. Malevich catalyzed her in 1915, but her series of "Painterly Architectonics" is by no means an imitation of the look of his Suprematism. They are equally inspired by the planes and colors of ancient Russian and Islamic architecture; she married an architectural historian and went as far afield as Samarkand. Occasionally her work strikes an apocalyptic, Kandinsky-like...