...besides voting for Barack Obama...
followed through on a promise to myself to actually go see some of the exhibits I read about in the NYTimes. At Talwar Gallery on East 16th Street, a mesmerizing group of drawings by Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990) took me completely out of the relentless whorl of politics. For half an hour or so, I entered the world of the grid, unplugged - a tour de force of drawings typified by lightly-drawn lines of varying thinness and thickness, and small markings, occasionally in deep desert colors, reminiscent of the work of Agnes Martin, with a (dare I say) lushness that captured me, mind and heart. Biographical facts reveal her long struggle with a neurological disease that rendered her motor abilities increasingly disfunctional. Perhaps this explains the omnipresence of depression alluded to in her diary, on display here as a video installation. But the drawings are evocative manifestations of a mind seeking enlightenment through objectivity. Inherent in each one is an emotional fusion of her narcissistic inner world with her formally examined outer world communicated to the observer by means of a practice of drawing that renders nature through a disciplined visual vocabulary of meticulous minutiae.
The exhibit is supposed to run through November 15th, but I think it's been extended.
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cool pics but what's art got to do with Obama? Haven't heard him talk about art or dance or such. And he doesn't play the sax. You figuring Michele will be Jackie Kennedy? Michele's a great lady, but not sure art's her thing either.
Jean D'Art
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