Thursday, March 17, 2016

Allison Katz at Gio Marconi



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Painting a growing diaspora of signifiers accumulates a puzzle, symbol/icons that hyperlink a representation adverse to coalescing immediate overarching identity. The images’ unambiguousness made tense by that directness failing to deliver on its promise of arriving a destination. If seeing was once forgetting the name of the thing one sees, then the icon represents a gaping blindness.

See too:  Annette Kelm at Gio Marconi