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...Dissent" tapestry exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Oct. 22,1999-Jan. 30, 2000) is either a contradiction in terms or a play on words. The show brings together modern tapestries by six contemporary artists--Murray Walker, Lilian Tyrrell, Leon Golub, Edward Derwent, Wojciech Jaskolka, and Jorge Pardo--who use the antiquated medium of tapestry-making as a vehicle for social commentary. Although criticisms of modern society is touted as the exhibition's concept, the show in reality places more emphasis on 'descent' rather than 'dissent'--more preoccupied with showcasing the at times overly-forced geneology connecting these modern...
...these are the exact qualities of the two most successful modern pieces in the exhibition. Jorge Pardo's untitled tapestry, one of three industrially fabricated in a Dutch factory, is by strict definitions a rug. Pardo also commissioned tapestries from a workshop in Mexico in where the weaving was done by hand but both techniques are given equal artistic creedance...
Losing four of the six singles matches, Harvard's season came to an unexpected and abrupt end when the Tech duo of Vanessa Pardo and Majka Serafinia disposed of Harvard's Julia Kim and Sanaz Ghazal...
...captain Gabriela Hricko and sophomore Vedica Jain supplied the Crimson with its only victories of the tournament. Hricko's 6-4, 6-1 straight set win against Pardo and Jain's wild 6-7 (7-4), 6-0, 6-0 victory over Sabrina Pardo were followed by two more Harvard losses. Only one doubles match was needed to close the book on the Crimson's 1998 campaign...
...Pozzi (Virginia Tech) def. Wang (Harvard), 6-4, 6-4; 2. Serafinia (VT) def. She (H), 6-4, 6-3; 3. Hricko (H) def. Pardo (VT), 6-4, 6-1; 4. Jain (H) def. Pardo (VT), 6-7 (7-4), 6-0, 6-0; 5. Mrozek (VT) def. Ghazal (H), 6-4, 6-2; 6. Chen...