The viewer may enter Ms. Brooks’ works through identification with the familiar, everyday objects, figures and people she portrays. The familiarity of her subject matter (a knife, an onion, a young girl) offer an intimacy, comfort, though not a sense of complacency. Each simple object as well as the more complex frontal confrontation in her … Continue reading
Writer, what kind of words will you fetch to awkwardly describe what drawing can instead perfectly represent? Don’t bother with words, unless you are speaking to the blind…don’t mess with things that belong to the eyes. Don’t try to smuggle them as something belonging instead to the ears. You will always be overruled by the … Continue reading
About this time last year Becky Suss’s first solo show was set to open at the ICA in Philadelphia. Upon entering the room, one felt a curious sense of abandonment; this is because there are no figures in the all too human spaces Suss gives us. The expansive bare walls of the Eleanor Biddle Lloyd … Continue reading
by C. Eckel We used to stand beside the batting cages licking grape push-popsicles and talking about making prank phone calls. The crash of a foul ball against the chain link fence would make us jump while it rattled back toward the mechanical pitcher. Eventually, error after error, the metallic tremors became no more startling … Continue reading
“I continue to take photographs of scars. I cannot stop because they are so much like a photograph. More than like, they have almost the same quality as a photograph. They are visible events in the past and recorded days. Both the scars and the photographs are the manifestation of sorrow for the many things … Continue reading
