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...Dancing in the Dark.” He also played a few cuts from the new album and promised to be back in Boston soon. If and when he returns, catch his show and pick up his album. Yorn will surely be a household name for those in the musical know...
This is the question posed by Anne Gilson Haney’s exhibit “Homecooking,” which recently ended at Crosstown Gallery in Boston. The most visually exciting pieces in this exhibit grapple with these questions by reducing familiar household objects to the fundamental basics of color, shape and line. Most of Haney’s works are mixed medium—combining acrylic piant with collage items such as newspaper, wallpaper and fabric. Haney’s style is loose and employs warm vivid colors that are applied directly to the surface to create...
Haney’s paintings read much like a scrapbook offering the viewer numerous glances into the domestic life of suburban America. Haney’s art tends towards abstraction, showing several motifs and scenes within one piece. She reduces household imagery such as fruit, bowls and cooking implements to their basic color and form. Haney combines shapes in a manner that emphasizes their proximity to the other shapes in the painting...
...female form is omnipresent in Haney’s work, but also appears in an abstracted manner. The forms appear as line drawings or illustrations out of 1950s household magazines and do not depict current trends and fashions. Haney’s art seems to be making a statement about female domesticity by associating a highly stylized female form with cooking implements and household items. Yet the abstract nature of her work prevents an overly didactic reading of her paintings...
...pollution limits and “undermine the sense of shared responsibility” necessary for cooperation. Yet we let wealthy people buy their way out of cleaning sewers, and that’s pretty degrading work. It would certainly give a greater sense of shared responsibility if every household had to clean its own sewers or make its own steel in a backyard smelter, but no one seems to be pushing for these laws quite...