You’re looking at work by a young man just out of art school, and just into an enthusiastically liberated gay life. Every work we see in Polaroids: Mapplethorpe was made by a man younger than 25. Robert Mapplethorpe would have turned 63 in November of 2009, had he not died twenty years ago...
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I live in the Pacific Northwest for many reasons and one is that I hate glare. In the summer I wear hats and sunglasses. I love the gentle shifting half-light of our overcast skies. I also love night paintings, for their controlled light and for the possibility that things will change...
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I promise I didn't come to Korea just to see Western art. Really. There are great numbers of contemporary art galleries in Seoul – it is, after all, a city of 20 million. But if I wanted to see Western art today, right now, besides Picasso I could see exhibitions of work by Rouaul...
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I spent some very rewarding time in Gallery 110 this afternoon, looking at work by Pam Berglundh and Elizabeth Halfacre. Berglundh apparently talked her friends into posing for her in their underwear. There’s a ruthless quality to the way she digs in to emphasize every roll over the p...
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In a show of works on paper, two large gouache paintings by Mary Ann Peters kept my nose to the north wall at Platform Gallery.
Done while on a residency in Civita di Bagnioregio, the work suggests weather, history, and architecture. Domes, amphitheaters, fog, haze, skyscrapers, storms, rain...
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