Word: nerys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Biennial avoids making a synthetic statement, the exhibition provides a great excuse to display an assortment of excellent new art. Given the diversity of contemporary visual practice and the widely accepted premise that all curating is somehow biased, it's no wonder that co-curators Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri staunchly resist labeling their exhibition a "survey." Even though the show feels more like a survey than any of the recent Biennials, in their catalog essay Phillips and Neri write that they tried to avoid making a "sampler" and instead looked for certain "millenial tendencies...
...Narrative" is one of the most convincing, even if broad, themes that Phillips and Neri trace in the show. Kara Walker's black silhouettes applied directly to the Whitney's white walls depict surreal scenes from slavery in the Old South. Demonstrating a keen sensitivity to the 19th century African-American literary tradition, Walker's imagery slips between history and fantasy, redemption and horror. Her striking installation monopolizes the historic connotations and graphic irony of the cutpaper silhouette, which despite its crisp, precise line shadows its subjects and prevents full narrative disclosure. In addition, both Zoe Leonard's archive...
...Secret. It has good groups of pictures by Clyfford Still and Philip Guston, but strangely enough it is relatively weak where it should be rock solid-in San Francisco art. Most of the top Bay Area names are represented-Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Manuel Neri, William Wiley and so on-but not always with works of the first quality. The uninitiated visitor would hardly guess how strong a creative center San Francisco has been over the past half-century, or how much of its value lies in its distinctive character...
...Ties are important," says Jodi M. Neri of KNF & T Temps, an employment agency. "Florals or stripes are good, but they must be on the conservative side and tasteful...
Exhibit A: You may recognize this as the peace symbol, but the Lubbock School Board calls it the "Cross of Neri." It is banned for the following reason: "This symbol represents [sic] peace in the early 60s, but now, among the Heavy Metal and Occult groups, signifies the "Cross of Neri." It shows an `upside down' cross with the cross member broken downward--`The Defeat of Christianity...