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CRITICS SELECT '06
Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Seven art critics from throughout North America were asked to choose under-represented artists in specific geographical regions who exemplify the spirit of contemporary art today or represent new trends in art.
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THE CRITICS:
Dan Bischoff (Newark, NJ; art critic, Star Ledger)
Anjali Gupta (San Antonio, TX; editor of Artlies)
Kate Hackman (Kansas City, editor of Review)
Claire Lieberman (Chicago Area; feature writer/critic, Sculpture )
Valery Oisteanu (NYC; Brooklyn Rail, NYARTS)
Steve Rockwell (Toronto; publisher, d’ART)
and Raul Zamudio
(Selecting Mexico City; contributing editor of Art Nexus;correspondent, Flash Art and contributor, Contemporary) |
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For the second annual installment of Critics Select, I thought it important to take a more careful look at North America as a whole. These seven art critics [ . . . ] were chosen for their extensive knowledge and exposure to specific geographic areas which feature a small, albeit important window into a culture which is wrestling with any number of political, religious, personal or historic issues.
All seven critics where asked to choose artists who they feel are under-represented and deserving of greater recognition. In their selections, it is easy to see that critical opinion, for lack of a better term, can be as diverse as the contemporary art scene.
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Dan Bischoff's three selections: Tom Nussbaum, Deb Mell and Emily Hubley all have this intimate, psychological, even primitive approach to the figure, while stirring some deep emotions and a sense of place inside the viewer.
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Deb Mell, Blue Sheik and Seer, 2005
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Anjali Gupta has an eye for the gritty and challenging from a technical standpoint. In the art of her three selections: Christopher Sauter, Guy Hundere and Andrea Caillouet, their lies a certain obsessive tone that confounds the concept of ‘meaning', while taking the viewer through distorted visions of memory and metaphor. |
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Andreas Caillouet, Home (Edition 1 of 3), 2001-2002
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Kate Hackman 's artists: Anne Pearce , Jess Moffitt and James Woodfill address physicality and form. Space, matter, energy, they all come into play in these artist's work, suggesting an internal struggle with the import of the physical object over a desire for understanding something wholly. |
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Anne Pearce, Pull: perceptions and truth (#1), 2005 |
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James Woodfill,Orange Signal (From Deluxe Spinning Kit), 2005, Courtesy of Byron C. Cohen Gallery
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Melissa Pokorny, Lon Gordon and Alberto González-González, the artists selected by Claire Lieberman, all look to function and preconception. Combinations arise within this search which force the viewer to connect, previously unconnected preconceptions that enhance our engagement with such materials and elements, and with the way we think and understand. |
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Lon Gordon, After the Rainshower, Vertiver, Paradox . . Rush . . .Kiss; 2003
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Melissa Pokorny, At Large, 2004
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Valery Oisteanu 's selections, in the works of Lucien Dulfan, Bruno Brieva and Angelo Jannuzzi, embrace a more spiritual, redemptive place. Here we see art, or the activity of creating as being part of a higher plane of desired well being - a search for balance in a world that is laden with situations that combat these tendencies. |
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Lucien Dulfan, Burial of the Past, 2005. |
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Steve Rockwell 's selections: Ric Evans, Scott Silverthorn and Steve Driscoll seem to have an obvious, or underlying emphasis on geometry, or the grid. Their subjects tend toward landscape orientation, though none of the worlds depicted are direct, which adds the additional element of a primally intellectual flavor. |
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Scott Silverthorn, April like the Month, 2005
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Edgar Orlaineta, Ulises Mora and Teresa Serrano, the artists selected by Raul Zamudio, share an interest in the narrative approach. However, in these minds, the story takes twists and turns that are wrapped around culture, whit and a flair for the dramatic which attacks the viewers understanding of the human condition. |
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Ulises Mora, Glutonous (detail), 2005.
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The Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts | 20 Third Avenue | Long Branch, NJ | 07740 | P.O. Box 4045
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