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QUICK SHOTS
Michael Lucero, Cheryl Laemmle at R. Duane Reed
Cheryl Laemmle's paintings of circus animals are OK, but Michael Lucero's
gaudy ceramic totems go off the deep end. They're lurid, funny, grotesque,
pretty, hideous, and undeniably odd. I still like the bronze pieces he
showed in New York about a decade ago better than anything else he's done,
but these are pretty swell, too. -AW
Charles Ray at Museum of Contemporary Art
Ok, so maybe it's a little hard at first to concentrate on formal
relationships between objects in space when you're looking at a group of
eight fairly realistic replicas of Charles Ray engaged in group sex. But
it's those formal relationships (rather than the sexual ones) that give
this work its staying power, a point this show-with its selection of works
spanning Ray's entire career-makes well. -AW
Ellen Lanyon at Jean Albano
I've always been somewhat interested, and rather frustrated, by Ellen
Lanyon's paintings, due in no small part to the fact that people keep
comparing my work to hers (because we both paint animals, I guess). Her
subjects tend to be interesting (often animals; mysterious scientific
contraptions in this show); her painting technique frustrating. Lanyon
favors thin, washy paint, and I still can't quite figure out why. -AW
Vera Klement at Fassbender Gallery
Explosion; Fourth Reel; Painting as Expressionist CinemaScope meets
experimental film. An artist who continually demonstrates the emotional
weight of white space and doesn't loose sleep for using a washtub for
symbolism.-JB
John Fraser at NIU Art Gallery, DeKalb
Implosion; Wax on, Wax off; Painter as Sculptor/Sculptor as Painter. Ten
years of obsessions with wood, paper, metal, and light that twist the banal
in on itself to uncover unusual meditations and make us ask what would have
happened if Rothko and Newman had not thrown away their Manila envelopes.
-JB
Tabula Non Rasa at I Space
Shock Wave; Surfs Up! Three mid-career artists-Dan Devening, Brian Sikes,
Amy Yoes-ride the long ripples of Modernism like hard-core surfers trying
to get the most response from new boards as they search for the "perfect
wave" and spiritual fulfillment.
-JB