WALKING THROUGH GALLERIES

One way or another, the entire past, whether recognizable or unrecognizable, stands between   me and the present world.  
                   ---PAUL VALERY CAHIERS/NOTEBOOKS 3/ p.369




FROM WALKING THROUGH CHELSEA, N.Y. ART GALLERIES on 12 April, 2017.

I saw only one work of art: a painting by LAMAR PETERSON  at Fredericks Freiser          of course it needs no words.

NOTHING ELSE REMAINS EXCEPT THESE words gathered from the handouts pretending or seriously explaining the stuff in the 12 galleries I walked through


--replicated, altered and spread

--luminous green surveillance images

--nothing on the scanner bed

--an ongoing series of sculptural objects

--image dispositions that are wrought

--an iconic Los Angeles-based artist

--activates the negative space and narrates the scene

--explores the boundary

--reverence and inscrutability

--with forebears as disparate

--Los Angeles based artist

--implied challege to the doctrine of painting

--houses, computers, spaceship interiors

--assimilating the ironies and contradictions

--address how digital technology is changing

--playful take on action painting

--computer-animated stars of the 1995 film

--faces appearing like ghostly

--Drawing on the range

--a sputter and an utterance

--frenetic visual culture--

--during the post-Reagan malaise of the early 1990s

--dancing expressionist rifts on classicist techniques

--Great White Male pantheon

--subconscious manipulations

--seemingly contradictory conceit

--careful attention to ancestry

--volcanic stone is a recurring

--long beloved by artists and architects

--explore the complexities of political anxiety

--dialogue around  the contentious state of global

--also engages and subverts the quotidian

--World-renowned  sculptor

--eye of

--on an ongoing basis

--explores and illuminates

--conformity and isolation 

--conflicts and complications

--twin roles of the observer

--knowing savaging

--for further information