Word: sohier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Umbrella, photographs by Sage Sohier...
...products like Sage Sohier may well be adequate explanation of where the faculty puts its energy. More likely, Sohier owes her ability to her own talent and hard work...
...that these photographs are out on exhibit, they are resplendent and surprising. Sohier's Umbrellas are a most amazing shape: they explode overhead, blossom underfoot, sprout and spring, collapse...
...display and content. Many of these pieces are too obviously exercises, too directed to be more than imperfect realizations of formulas. Traditional modes and media dominate; a painting section hangs in guady grandeur over half a wall, while one of the most outstanding pieces in the show, Sage Sohier's book of umbrella photographs, is locked all-but-invisible in a glass case...
...tackle something never tried before--and the works that come out of this are a lot more interesting, too. Walter Bender's color lithograph of Central Square. Rich Diamond's two large mobiles. Mykal Castro's abstract paintings in acrylic on canvas, the photography of Mark Lenihan or Sage Sohier or Paula Bonnell--all these works have a style that relies on neither words nor props...