by J. Tim Raymond |
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Dave Gusmann's paintings @ Starlight Studio though March 13 |
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“It seems like a dream now, It was 40 years ago. I was an MP stationed in Saigon, drafted, spent my whole tour there,’69-’70, got out four months early. The paintings are not out of PTSD or anything like that, I had all that way before I went into the army—bad childhood, abusive father, alcohol, all that when I was a kid…nothing that Vietnam did to me.”
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Kevin Kegler's diptychs @ Chow Chocolate through March 31 |
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Kevin Kegler’s exhibition of 17 assemblages at Chow Chocolat, a venue that combines fine comestibles with fine art, offers plenty of food for thought as well. With Kegler’s work there is a temptation to resist the modern inclination to regard every move an artist makes as somehow conditioned or shaped by environment, but there is in his by now familiar shrine-like diptychs a depiction of such a personal mythology of flora and fauna in delicate distress that compels participation in a fascinating guessing game not unlike viewing the dioramas of Joseph Cornell. |