Word: wofford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allan Crockett for the five-member panel. But noting such "widely accepted" ideas as earlier female maturity and male breadwinning responsibility, the court upheld a state law under which males are considered minors until age 21 and females only until 18. In Georgia, however, Trial Judge Charles A. Wofford struck down the state's laws on alimony because the requirement to pay applied to husbands only. Similarly, State Judge John S. Covington threw out the Louisiana prostitution statute because only the woman - and not her client - is subject to penalty. Said Covington: "The state must regulate the conduct...
...Philip Wofford, at 36, is scarcely an abstract painter at all. The pictures in his current exhibition at SoHo's Emmerich Gallery all involve the general experience, if not the detail, of landscape-not as seen by the eye's perspective, with sky at the top and earth below, but as though taken apart and rewoven into an expansive shifting pattern of space. Wofford, who teaches art at Bennington College, regards a visit he paid to the Southwest in 1968 as one of the key experiences in his work-especially some nights he spent camping on the edge...
This has been one of the familiar themes of American art ever since the Hudson River School-the idea of epic landscape, which gives rise to the parallel idea that the actual making of a picture is some kind of journey. And for Wofford, whose attitude has been much influenced by reading the memoirs of an Oglala chief (Black Elk Speaks), landscape ought not to be separated from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their...
...London's Hayward Gallery, smokes plate glass with an opaque tea-like mist, and stands his box on a clear plexiglass base. Robert Irwin, another westerner, showing in Boston for the first time, projects lights on an acrylic semisphere to create an illusionistic, technological flower. David Diao and Philip Wofford texturize their canvases with drips and smudges in the Jackson Pollock tradition. Dan Christensen has painted a coil and glow like neon lights, and Larry Poons has left the confines of his precisely contoured complementary-colored dots and spews them into space. The room leaves hardedge, inhuman works to another...