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...color photographs by Joel Meyerowitz currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Harcus Krakow Gallery display a lyric sensibility for which the thrill of the eye on the world's luminous surfaces -- water, sky, foliage,' flesh -- lovingly captured, contains intense emotional value. The photographs were shot with a largeformat view camera whose slow exposures and sizable 8x10 inch prints produce an almost magical sharpness and delicacy of color. All the photographs in the museum, and the majority in the gallery, were taken over two summers at Cape Cod. There, after many years' experience photographing in black...
...photographs such as Meyerowitz's is scratched by what may be an impertinent moral prickling. But one should finally trust and retrieve from this argument the photographs themselves: the best of them -- two pictures of clothes-lines, a glass-topped table, a couple of porches, and one, in the Harcus Krakow gallery, which is merely a bare clean plane of water, seem poignantly vivid, simple, vestigial. They are worth seeing...
...Gallery-of-the Week is Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend, 7 Newbury Street in Boston. It specializes in the blue-chip New Yorkers celebrated at the Worcester show. Carl Palazzolo's brilliant, large paintings and drawings are up through November 29. They're more exciting than anything I've seen recently...
...other themes for gallery summer shows is "From Our Collection." These shows are interesting because they reveal a gallery's basic activities. They're showing the artists that are affiliated with them Newbury Street galleries look like copies of posh uptown New York galleries Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnaband actually imports what the others aspire to imitate-they're the Boston representatives of Motherwell, Frankenthaler and others whose paintings they're exhibiting now Graphics 1 and 2 is showing equally famous contemporary graphics...
...alumni/ae of the Museum of Fine Art's contemporary gallery are showing in the area this week. Katharine Porter's grid-like paintings are at MIT's Hayden Gallery, through December 21, and her "Works on Paper" are at the (believe it or not) Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, 7, Newbury St., along with the photo-realist paintings of Joel Janowitz, through December 28. Porter's work is very exciting, Janowitz's much less so, although I'd prefer his stuff to any of the current contemporary painting at the MFA. Entitled "Trends in Contemporary Realist Painting", the exhibit...