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» LINE, GESTURE, SPACE January 22 - March 15 Therese A. Maloney Gallery, St. Elizabeth College, NJ
By ULA EINSTEIN | Published 01/20/2008 | Exhibition Press Releases
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Opening Reception February 7th, 4:30-7:00pm St. Elizabeth College, Morristown, NJ
3 Artists -
ELAINE CHONG (NJ)- wire drawing with handmade paper
ULA EINSTEIN (NYC) - new installation work with wire, and various media, painting
NAOMI GROSSMAN (NY) - wire drawing, sculpture
» Ouverture: Huma Bhabha
By Merrily Kerr | Published 01/22/2007 | Magazine Features
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I think Jesus would be horrified at whats going on, Huma Bhabha quipped in front of J.C., her rendition of a shell-shocked son of God fashioned from scavenged wood and Styrofoam with clay accents. 

» A Flood of Details: Digging Into Yun-Fei Ji's Source Material
By Merrily Kerr | Published 01/22/2007 | Magazine Features
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Yun-Fei Jis monumental new landscape paintings, depicting scenes along the winding banks of the Yangtze River just prior to the areas flooding by the Three Gorges Dam, are composed of imagery sampled from a vast archive of photographs, notes and sketches he has developed on several trips to China over the past five years. 
» Force Majeure
By Merrily Kerr | Published 12/26/2006 | Exhibition Reviews
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Kara Walker responds to Hurricane Katrina with a wake-up call of a show at the Met
» Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964; Andy Warhol at the Art Gallery of Ontario
By The Art Fag | Published 08/12/2006 | Andy Warhol , Exhibition Reviews
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Memo to the Art Gallery of Ontario: fire your marketing staff. Initially, we welcomed the news that the AGO would be hosting an Andy Warhol show.  Until, that is, we saw the ads.  Far from being clever and savvy, these ads actually raise the not-entirely-unrealistic prospect that the AGO had never ever heard of Warhol, nor had they any clue what he had ever done.
» Myths: The Paintings of Samuel Gareginyan
By David Delmar-Senties | Published 07/13/2006 | Samuel Gareginyan , Akrylic Exclusive
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None of this is real, said Samuel Gareginyan to a crowd of assembled students, faculty, and other curious onlookers in his warm Armenian accent. Its a different plane of reality. And it was impossible not to see what he meant, in a room full of windows called paintings.
» The AFC Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Photographs of Rob Carter
By Paddy Johnson | Published 07/9/2006 | Blog Clippings , Rob Carter
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Like many contemporary artists, the philosophy that differentiates Carter’s work from this movement is one that subscribes to the belief that man’s most able self is his conscious self-his intending self.
» Oreet Ashery: Venus/Penis Envy?
By Raul Zamudio | Published 06/30/2006 | Akrylic Exclusive , Oreet Ashery
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An exploration of an under-explored register of artistic practice as it appears in the work of the Israeli-born, London-based artist Oreet Ashery.
» Wangechi Mutu's Extreme Makeovers
By Merrily Kerr | Published 04/27/2006 | Wangechi Mutu , Magazine Features
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Artists from Cindy Sherman to Orlan have explored the chameleon-like nature of female bodies for decades. So what makes Mutu’s work unique? Apart from being skilled in montage she coherently refers to race, politics, fashion, and African identity in portraits that pack an aesthetic punch. 
» Volker Seding on permanent display
By Randy Gladman | Published 04/27/2006 | Volker Seding , Private Collection Wall Texts
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German born Canadian artist Volker Seding approaches his subject from the vantage point of a witness. Presenting architectural façades from Toronto, New York, Paris, Venice, and Havana, amongst other locales, his photographs provide a visual record of the history of the street and the city it inhabits. 
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