Word: undergrowth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from man. There had been no significant rain for 200 days, humidity was down to 5%, and temperatures climbed over 100°. Hot, seasonal Santa Ana winds swept in from the desert to the northeast. To make it worse, heavy rains two winters ago had nourished an unusually heavy undergrowth, now dust-dry. Police reported that there were some instances of arson as well...
OTHER students concentrate on more traditional, though terribly exacting, struggles with draughtsmanship and realism. Sarah Holly Alderman's "Undergrowth" is an incredibly dense and detailed drawing full of grasses and ferns and wild plants. Her background tree stump floats a little in space, but the range of textures she gets out of her pencil is truly admirable. And Steve Selkowitz's "Mantis," my favorite sculpture in the show, is actually a three-dimensional kind of draughtsmanship. A yard-long praying mantis that waits high on a wall, the piece is built of soldered wires-lines in space-and is disconcertingly...