Word: ica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art): Catherine Murphy, through May 27th. The consciously mundane reality Murphy sees is so empty that it is disturbing. The meticulous technique of these paintings challenge the viewer to find a meaning, any meaning...
...Kresges dime store for 96 cents suggests to him a clam, or a landscape, a "sunrise set". Conversely, he sees the "mitt" form in a milkweed pod, in an ear, in a platter of fried eggs, of pie a la mode. The original mitt is also part of the ICA exhibit. It is carefully labeled: "on loan from Claes Oldenburg...
...foot clothespin towers up in golden splendour, refined, stripped to bare geometric form; a 20-foot vinyl three-way plug hangs limply from the ceiling, inviting caresses. (In the present exhibit, the larger pieces are at MIT, while the drawings, for the most part, are at the ICA. The MIT part of the exhibit should be seen after the ICA portion, since the large sculptures are logical and spatial extensions of the ideas conceived in the drawings...
...only one of his themes to have assumed the name of an animate being. Actually it looks very little like a mouse. Oldenburg calls the geometric mouse "a symbol of analysis and intellect". He identifies with it ("I'm the Mouse"); one of the funniest drawings at the ICA is a "self-portrait as a Mystical Mouse". On the front of the artist's shirt is scribbled: "objects", but to mock the possible Significance of that, along the side is written "KING KONG...
Street Art. Artists are on exhslibit this month. The ICA sponsored "Works in Progress" consists of ten artists at work along the Freedom Trail. The results are not the cliches you'd expect--there's no-one in Revolutionary War dress. Instead there are prominent local artists like Carpenter Center animator, Mary Beams. She is known for her dancing penis animations but her subject at the North End Mail is an antique film projector. "Works in Progress" is billed as a chance for the public to see some of Boston's "hidden resources." The people who hang...