Word: working
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this got the better of me and I had to plead for mercy with the guards.) Some art awakens entirely different desires, compelling the viewer instead to talk about it, to stare at it, to look away from it, to imitate it or to think about it. The work by Museum School and Harvard students now showing in the Adams House Art Space goes straight to the fingertips...
...Garnette Hall's work in varnished-over chocolate and cake gel on canvas was the most difficult to keep my hands off; the surface seems to be encrusted with half-molten gemstones. Similarly, Jessica Golbus '99 also starts with a canvas but then adds texture instead of paint, covering the surface with strips of screen, splintering boards and an old shirt...
...other pieces by their neatly stylized, almost commercial execution; they are a smart treatment of issues of self-presentation that are usually seen only in the feminine inflection. Like most any group show, "Salon" is uneven and loose; however, it contains samples of compelling, skillful and surprisingly mature work...
...Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin writes that the body of the filmed subject "loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life, voice and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence. The projector will play with his shadow before the public." Shimon Attie's work, currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, is premised on such shadowplay, but with profoundly moving results...
...exhibition, titled "Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie, Photographs and Public Projects, 1992-1998," is the first retrospective of the artist's work and encompasses several of his European installations, as well as his most recent offerings in San Francisco and New York...