His protagonist may be a sympathetic person, engaging, affable and charming; but he is also a murderer, an assasin and may even have enjoyed the thrill of execution at the time the killings were carried out. Is this young man one of us or a psychopathic killer in disguise? His girlfriend, when he asks if [...]
Political violence as a figurative art form. Nancy Spero’s career has been a statement against the pervasive abuse of power, militarism, and sexual predation.A feminist artist preoccupied with myth and the repetition of eternal themes within the context of contemporary social and economic history. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her [...]
An artistic confrontation with the undead within a neo-mythic exploration of the ghoulish. An appropriation of the dead; walking, limping, and shambling, the zombie lurches awkwardly towards artistic commodification.The walking undead have been a topic of debate dating back hundreds of years, even in the Bible which refers to the dead walking the earth in [...]
The weighty dilemma of the artist who must be ”human” in addition to creating. To slay the dragon of abstraction in pursuit of a cause. A mythological figure destined to eternal recurrence. Imagine alienation and despondency as a default setting, and central theme of personal identity. Segal’s acute awareness of the “underlying” reality [...]
