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...Marika Landau-Wells
...leave her small village in Greece. Nick was the 37-year-old man who, more than 15 years, before had left his house, less than a mile from her own, in a crisp, clean, official military uniform. She grew up hearing stories about George and Marika's son, the boy who completed his mandatory two years of service and then left Greece to join his older brother in America. There, he moved to Chicago's Greektown, worked at a variety of odd jobs, and years later, with middle-age looming, decided that it was time to get married...
...Denise Marika's work, one of the only examples of photography in Visual Memoirs, highlights this absence from the survey. "Battle Photo Series (I-VII)," 1994-95, is composed of seven separate units arranged side-by-side, each a six-foot-tall strip of a photograph encased in steel channels. The once whole image becomes disembodied arms and legs. Because the continuity of the photo is broken up into segments, the original configuration of limbs is illegible. Are the intertwined bodies screwing or fighting? The frames of steel enclose and restrain the photograph's action, while the progression from...
...Through Nov. 28: "Images of Europe: Photographs from the Permanent Collection," "Recoil: A Video Installation by Denise Marika," "Light on the Familiar: The Paintings of Scott Prior," "Get Real: Representational Paintings from the Permanent Collection...
...Madonna's energy and audacity make her an unforgettable original in the wasteland of bland, wimpy disco divas (the Mariah Careys and Celine Dions, yuck!). Being trashed by tabloids and appearing in cheesy movies should not diminish the fact that Madonna has had a phenomenal impact on pop culture. MARIKA KANG Calgary, Alberta...