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BALCOMB GREENE-Saidenberg, 1035 Madison Ave. at 79th St. Greene's engaging double exposures in muted blues and browns have a deceptively unfinished look. But the white space in his seascapes and street scenes is left there on purpose: to flood the canvases with light. Through Nov. 30.
In Holleman's landscapes, the rough texture of the tiles helps to suggest mountains and rocks. Easily the best landscape "Forum" suggests shadowy, muted ruins by tiles of subtly varying shades; the sky shines with uniformly bright blue squares. (Instead of buying finished tiles, Holleman colors his own to insure...
A group of portraits best demonstrates the artist's control of his medium. In the "Lovers," for example, the muted shades and rough, dull textures of the tiles contrast sharply with the brighter mood of the couple. Playing up the two-dimensional limitations of mosaics, Holleman has created a St...
The Public Eye has the edge in freshness and invention. Mr. Cristoforou (Barry Foster) materializes in an austerely elegant London office lined with muted leather bindings. Against this background, Cristoforou is a sartorial explosion of black and brown stripes, flaming yellow tie, a café-au-lait shirt, off-beige...
In his second book Grass has turned to another grotesque-a gawky adolescent named Joachim Mahlke who is afflicted by a quivering excrescence of flesh over his Adam's apple. But if Grass still views life largely as a kind of Gothic sideshow, he permits himself, as he did...