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n the big hole valley files from the girl in room 10 is essentially a full gallery installation that features archival arrangements combine type sculptures sound video and text dooling an art professor at bard college devotes most of the space to critically nostalgic renderings of her childhood and teenage years using carefully preserved artifacts from her life and the lives of certain key relatives more on them in a bit as well as other presumably found and created objects and materials busing break for amy while such self centered expression can easily descend into ranting spewing and overall self indulgence dooling s is as carefully considered as a smithsonian scientific display and is delightfully engaging dooling s approach is complex and inclusive yet spare as is clearly evident in the installation view shown below her sculptural style tends toward a very limited palette and an elegant pared down presentation reminding me of the scientific and philosophical principle of occam s razor which favors the simplest solution to tricky problems installation view much of the show s content is presented in showcases cabinets or vitrines aptly enough for archives and effective enough as an art form though i found it sometimes a little tough to see the details sufficiently to satisfy my curiosity and with this level of personal material from a teenage girl s drug filled life that curiosity easily bordered on morbid fascination witchiepoo equally fascinating were the elements of the show that focused on dooling s remarkable great grandparents who explored and promoted healing with homeopathy grandmother who published the important progressive journal parabola and an uncle owned a rustic montana guest ranch dooling seems to have held on to everything of value from her forebears and her own past and here she organizes many elements of it into precise unblinking displays of reflection and self revelation but dooling is not a sensationalist and to my relief i found that this is not shock art rather it is sincere almost to the point of sweetness and was for me especially nostalgic for a number of reasons though my own teen years predated dooling s by about a decade it seems she relived similar experiences to mine and though it seems she suffered more for it the titular girl in room 10 was being held in the psych ward after a tough acid trip it s clear to me she also had some fun as i did and got through it all in one piece my grandmother s parabola i d be curious to know how others react to this material if they had a crappy teen hood would this be an unpleasant experience or would it perhaps be cathartic if they had a wholesome one would they be repelled by the young daniella s drug use and sexuality my own teen years were drug fueled sexualized and wholesome and for me personally this show was an especially uplifting revival of memories of those dangerous yet innocent times dooling s open sharing of diaries mementos and experiences is a gift to be savored and it has left a pleasant afterglow not at all the way i would expect to feel after viewing similar content handled by an artist of lesser skills bloody dick road in the big hole valley files from the girl in room 10 is one of the year s best shows by an artist who deserves all the serious attention she gets posted by david brickman at 1 30 pm 1 comment labels albany art assemblage installation issues mixed media performance art sculpture video thursday november 27 2014 books a novel photographs and poetry though it isn t a picture book paul castellani s sputnik summer features a great photo by adirondack photographer carl heilman ii on the cover and its author and his wife donna are great modern art enthusiasts who attend a lot of openings so it caught my attention castellani is a professor by trade but his academic roots stay pretty well hidden in this coming of age novel that takes place in the late 50s in a fading adirondack resort town where a somewhat typical 17 year old boy tries to come to terms with the limits of his hick town the crummy summer resort his abusive dad runs his own college ambitions and the need to get laid the story is punctuated by news bits and advertising slogans taken straight from the publications of the day which provides a sort of parallel narrative that suggests political and social commentary without offering it directly castellani is an excellent storyteller and he keeps you interested in the twists and turns of this intelligent but inexperienced young man s rather fateful last summer at home put simply i enjoyed the book and so probably will you or the person you decide to give it to another book that recently came into my possession serves double duty as the catalog of the current exhibition at the photography center of the capital district in troy both are titled structures and feature the work of two photographers ian creitz and robert feero it is always different to experience a body of photographs in a book as opposed to an exhibition and this publication offers an opportunity to compare the two experiences at least until the show comes down on dec 15 in this case the selection is changed but the real differences between a show and a book are in terms of scale and juxtaposition this book uses the page to page flow as part of the presentation not always entirely successfully but in an engaging way creitz is the more traditional of the two photographers and he works in many formats and styles color black and white panoramic and straight on he has a very good technical command of the medium and apparently loves to seek out decrepit buildings to shoot in bringing back highly detailed and arresting images of his sad subjects creitz sometimes uses heavy handed digital effects to make his pictures look antique an unnecessary effort as the battered places he explores already amply show the effects of time feero a former abstract painter also applies a certain digital gimmick in which the image is refracted into four parts to make a kaleidoscopic mandala but in feero s case he gets away with it because he has a very keen eye for the type of composition that will work well with this technique resulting in a particular geometric vision all his own a few of feero s pictures use black and white but he is really a colorist the painter lives his subjects mainly buildings and bridges are so transformed by the multiplication as to be nearly unrecognizable yet they are essential to feero s approach the book is very nicely printed so the pictures hold their power in the reproductions and it is attractively priced at 15 though for that you do have to put up with a spiral binding it would make a very nice gift for any art architecture or photography enthusiast barry lobdell and michael tucker collaborated to create pull over a collection of poetry and black and white photographs that celebrates symbolism spirituality and simplicity tucker the poet worked for decades in special education and describes himself in the book as a vietnam war resister who proudly served with the hippies in boston his writing is as sincere as expected and retains some of the hopeful idealism of that era lobdell s photography was already quite familiar to me through exhibitions and a business relationship but this presentation casts it in a different light and i find the combination of the two artists visions to be mutually beneficial while each stands on its own the consistent pairing of a short poem and a single picture on every page or spread of the book creates a fine balance and a lovely rhythm the book an oversized paperback opens out horizontally to provide a 23 inch wide layout and many of the photos are bled to three edges to take full advantage of this expanse of space the images range from domestic moments to landscapes and cityscapes and are nicely reproduced in a full range of black and white tones each picture accompanies a poem with related subject matter not illustrating the words so much as augmenting them tucker s poetry is unadorned and direct but also at times clever if for no other reason i can recommend this writer on the strength of his having the courage and humor to rhyme cheetos with speedos he repeatedly targets certain topics such as the title poem s advice to stop and look and appreciate not in a cloying way but in a gently urgent manner that makes it clear he values the zen approach to life tucker is a searcher as is lobdell and this brings them together quite comfortably priced at 19 95 this book is a good value that will make a fine gift in fact i m planning to give it to my mother in law for christmas but please don t tell her pull over is available at the book house of stuyvesant plaza market block books in downtown troy and northshire books in saratoga springs the seagull by michael tucker the warm blanket of dawn pink and billowing draws back across the first blue the moon a blur of white nowhere now can there be night against the gentle sleepy clouds a messenger of the moment circles high greeting day and us this sentinel of morning stillness is too a seagull looking for a spilled french fry parking lot leftovers garbage we live in two states at once in divinity in vulgarity two sides of one moment will we see through ourselves will we look up what we see will be our destiny posted by david brickman at 11 41 am no comments labels adirondacks architecture book arts books graphic design humor photography poetry troy writing sunday november 16 2014 jaune quick to see smith at mandeville gallery this contemporary take on the sisyphus myth titled sissy and the plutocrats is at six by eight feet the largest painting in the jaune quick to see smith show at union college all the paintings reproduced here are oil and acrylic on canvas a fine small show of paintings and prints by the native american artist jaune quick to see smith fills union college s mandeville gallery situated in the extraordinary nott memorial in the center of the college s campus green smith is internationally known for the skillful way she combines primitive symbolic imagery with modern painterly style and as an articulate voice for women and native americans shock and awe i ll admit i was not familiar with this artist before hearing about this show but it lived up to expectations in a number of ways first smith is a mature artist who knows her way around a canvas and who maintains a sense of humor while addressing socially and politically charged issues second the selection presented here is limited in scope while still being broad enough to satisfy a first time viewer so it clearly communicates her vision and messages without being overwhelming the space is circular which suits this presentation particularly well as smith establishes and returns to certain themes repeatedly one can comfortably walk around and around taking in the imagery and relating it from one piece to the next without concerns for order or hierarchy theatres of war lithograph there are nine paintings and six prints in this selection and it is immediately clear that for smith printmaking is a serious pursuit not a cheaper substitute for painting one of my favorite pieces in the show is a lithographic riff on a war shirt that evokes jim dine s bathrobe series as well as other modern or pop art styles but remains clearly a smith invention seen here at right imperialism other work brings the wunderkind haitian american painter jean michel basquiat to mind not a bad thing at all because smith infuses his neo primitive graffiti inspired style with her own distinctive and powerful set of cultural symbols one of those symbols seen in the top left area of the painting reproduced at the beginning of this review is the rabbit which seems to exist as a stand in for smith herself or for her people in general at times rendered into a flat cartoon at others more expressively drawn this character seems to know who it is and where it stands in the context of the picture not to mention in the world beyond the picture in this way smith exudes her own confidence and convinces us that the things she cares about are worthy of our attention the show ends on nov 30 and the gallery is open from 10 a m to 6 p m every day see it if you can posted by david brickman at 4 49 pm 1 comment labels issues painting printmaking schenectady tuesday november 11 2014 mary pat wager at albany center gallery a visitor contemplates one of mary pat wager s reliefs at acg photo by mike wagner in the great tradition that albany center gallery has become in its 35 years of existence the current retrospective by sculptor mary pat wager is a big sprawling show of important work covering a span of several decades wager is a familiar face on the regional art scene including at past acg shows but this major exhibition is still a long time coming and a welcome sight featuring scores of works from 1978 through 2014 collections a retrospective was independently curated by jackie weaver and includes wall hung and free standing pieces in steel wood copper bone bronze stone brass glass paper and more usually combining several of these materials in one piece it s organized clutter marvelously inventive sophisticated yet direct assemblage by an inveterate collector some would say hoarder of stuff yes wager loves stuff and she lovingly turns it into art it s almost that simple and would be if she were less of an artist but where craft fair or roadside sculptors are entertaining wager is deeply engaging her direct involvement in metal casting often represented by free form melted bits she s scavenged from the process is just one source of the profound connections wager forges with her materials and thereby shares with her audience if you love pure form if symbolism turns you on or if you just kinda like steampunk see this show i like it because i see fascinating conjunctions and droll juxtapositions throughout i like it more because i see a very clever eye at work and i want to go back because that s only the beginning of the fountain of creativity on display here but you better hurry because it ends on nov 21 albany center gallery is open from noon to 5 pm tuesday through saturday for more information call 518 462 4775 solitary confinement 2014 mixed media by mary pat wager all other images are sculptures by mary pat wager posted by david brickman at 10 20 pm no comments labels albany assemblage mixed media sculpture wednesday october 29 2014 theme and variations gail nadeau at fmcc an installation view of angelus at fmcc the show angelus by gail nadeau at the perrella gallery of fulton montgomery community college in johnstown raises a lot of wonderful questions the very talented nadeau works in digital media as well as traditional forms such as silver based photography and oil paint and all are present in this 60 piece installation is it a retrospective well there are images from 1985 2014 and in between but no it s not a retrospective is 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