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...Marc's later works show the influence of not only the tense social climate surrounding him but also the new and diverse artistic trends that proliferated during this time. In the last painting of the exhibit, "The Stables," we can see how Marc was influenced by the emerging Cubist movement. With its fragmented planes and kaleidoscopic shards of color, the viewer must squint hard to pick out the horses from the surrounding stables. The effect, once again, is a remarkable merging of subject and background into one unified consciousness...
Long a staple of Boston's art scene, Maggi Brown probes the limits of her own consciousness in a new exhibit now open at the Barbara Krakow Gallery on Newbury St. In a series of related yet fiercely distinct oil-on-canvas paintings, Brown attempts to capture the mood or feeling of elements as disparate as a song, a person, a place, a dream. The result is an intensely introspective, personal and somewhat cryptic show that both begs for explanation and needs none...
...most memorable work in the exhibit is a painting entitled "Farfalli" (Italian for butterfly), which substitutes a single symbol for letters. A large panel of soothing blue and gray is framed on top by a section of roughly textured deeper color and on the sides by narrow panels covered with the outlines of tiny butterflies, each hand-traced on the canvas. Though the painting is softer in both color and style than the others in the show, its effect is no less dramatic. For those who have sometimes felt that words cannot fully capture the essence of an experience...
Insipid, tepid and vigorously lacking in originality, the Pucker Gallery's current exhibit of pastels by Mallory Lake, Italy Light and Shadow, is a fuzzy romantic nightmare, Hallmark style. These lifeless, flat and relentlessly maudlin landscapes do the impossible: resurrect the bourgeois landscape of the 19th century without even the slightest hint of irony. Such unremitting cuteness might just as well have been the result of Snuggles the detergent teddy bear's experimentation with a paint-by-numbers kit while on vacation in Tuscany. To Lake's credit, several of her horizontal compositions are unusually strong in their geometric structure...
...genius of this exhibit is more in the pairing of talents (surprisingly, this is the couple's first joint show) than in the works themselves, proof that sometimes the variations can be more interesting than the original theme...