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Davidson and McCarthy are self-described “book-artists,” and Shambroom is a painter and sculptor. Book-art is difficult to define with any precision, and thus is probably best defined through example. As the exhibit’s statement puts it, the exhibit consists of “Boxes of painted panels, vertical and horizontal scrolls, accordians, stand-up books that open like doors, pop-up books presenting architectural models, and sculpture using books as a material, like marble or clay...
...dragged back into it by this or that exhibition. People have to be reminded how important an artist he was in his time, on a level with figures who now seem more formidable (if less loved) presences in the history books, such as the architect Walter Gropius and the painter Wassily Kandinsky, who taught at the Bauhaus with him. But the truth is that for at least half the past century, painters, indeed whole movements (those being the days when you had movements), took stuff from Klee, with or without acknowledgment. He was far from being isolated by his whimsicality...
Small pictures, powerful presence and an output that can't be compressed into a single show. The Hayward's version, "Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation," was curated by a critic, Robert Kudielka, and a painter, the supremely intelligent and responsive Bridget Riley, the grande dame of English art. As Kudielka points out in his catalog introduction, Klee's work was not rooted in any movement. However abstract, it came out of the experience of nature and culture blended. Perhaps the decisive moment in Klee's early career was a 1914 visit that he and his friend August Macke paid...
...starting out” and “coming back” and how the two are intertwined. But this inevitable cycle is not so much an exercise in futility as it is a constant return to a place of self-searching and inspiration. In “The Painter,” we again see Ashbery’s paradigmatic enterprise. The painter returns again and again to the sea for inspiration, emphasizing the changeableness of the sea as a metaphor for his art: “My soul, when I paint this next portrait...
Marina Gerolimatos’ hands are both efficient and expressive. And in the Eliot House dining hall her efficiency (as Eliot’s dining card swiper) and her expressiveness (as a painter) are both on display. Gerolimatos, who has lived in America since 1978 and worked at Harvard since 1980, presided over the opening of the first public display of her work on March 3 in a small dining room in Eliot. So far, the reviews are glowing...