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...FRUMKIN...
...tepid in the galleries," she complains. One exception is Manhattan's Frumkin Gallery, where she is currently having her first major show. The collection is a gaudy carnival of approximately life-size figures, stuffed, covered with canvas and painted in bright clashing colors. The total effect is anything but tepid, the figures looking something like characters cut out of Godard's Weekend...
More than one newcomer to Manhattan's giddy gallery-go-round finds himself both bedazzled and befoozled. Should he wander into Manhattan's Frumkin Gallery this week, he will find a partner in bemusement. Hung by two wires from the ceiling is a large plywood artist's palette, smeared with paint and with a paintbrush affixed to it. On the palette, in black plastic letters, is the question: "What's It All Mean...
...questioner is William Thomas Wiley, 30, a graduate of San Francisco's cheerfully ticky-tacky school of funk art. For the past eight months, Wiley has been surveying the cool, hip New York City art scene, and the show at the Frumkin Gallery reflects his conclusions. Wiley finds himself impressed with "how important art is here, how it fits into New York culture." At the same time, he is irked by its high seriousness and the pretentious critical debates that rage about each new fad. "I'm both for and against the New York art scene," says Wiley...
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN-Frumkin, 41 East 57th. Nudes sprawled on blankets and pillows are more decadent than decorous, more pooped-out than reclining, in fact, more naked than nude. Pearlstein endows his not-so-fair ladies with formidably bulging muscles, paints their flesh tired grey...