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...It’s a thriller that rarely excites, a mystery that doesn’t intrigue and since we know already that Jack is the culprit, the tale is less of a “whodunit” than a “whoisit.” Any viewer with half a perceptive eye, however, will quickly learn the killer’s true identity; thus, the narrative’s motor effectively stalls, sputters and dies...
...Hilliard’s photographs include multiple panels. This technique adds significant depth to each piece. On the Bernard Toale Gallery website, Hilliard explains, “This sequencing of photographs and shifting of focal planes allows me the luxury of guiding the viewer across the photograph, directing their eye; an effect I could never achieve through a single image...
...aspect of her life. The storm cloud represents the things that threaten the fragile leaf, the things that threaten Stella’s destiny. Stella looks to the cloud, but, even more so than the leaf, it is impossible for her to control Mother Nature. This piece leaves the viewer with questions about Stella’s fate. Does the storm doom the leaf? Does the hiding sunshine overcome the storm...
...like beer commercials filled with beautiful people. They of course can’t claim that drinking beer will make you look like these people any more than one can claim that Jesus’ teachings support war, but the hope is that somehow the viewer will associate drinking beer with beautiful people, religion with a war. When not quoted out of context or misused, the Bible calls for peacemaking and love. These words come from the war-making president’s alleged “favorite philosopher,” Jesus...
Neshat's videos gracefully negotiate between the Scylla of "Isn't this just television?" and the Charybdis of much early video art's stupefying dullness. She's not afraid of narrative, but it does not control the work. To watch Rapture, the viewer stands between two screens, one of men busying themselves with ladders in a fortress, the other of women pushing a boat out from a beach. The groups on the two screens interact. The meaning is open-ended...