81 WINTER 2018
Opposite Page, Bottom Left: Lemniscate #7 | 2017 | Woodcut mono print on paper | 14 x 14'' (By Matt Neuman) Bottom Right: The Sugar Awakens | 2017 | Dye sublimation print | 32 x 24'' | (By Scott Alario) Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY.
Artist Natalie Czech takes the poem by Yvonne Ranier highlighting each word found with the lyrics on the John Lennon Imagine record sleeve. Backdropping the sleeve against floating clouds and blue sky, she manages to create a sun spot. A visually striking result to an intellectual and intuitive creative process. She yokes together modes of communication and melds mediums asking the viewer to find their place on the planet and their own humanity amidst the repeated chaos of human foibles.
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Kabinett project) to help us bear the frightening pace of our information age and the blatant repeating of historical mistakes too big for any Cinderella slipper whether designer, glass or clay. Chantal Crousel of Gallery Chantal Crousel took such care and time with me to explain the ephemeral beauty of Anri Sala’s film still, “Light Pushing #2” another laser view on coexistence. She’s a true eye and voice of art as a cultural necessity. She told me this article on “all of the art in Miami Dec 5-9” would be an “impossible task.” She said you, the reader will “finish the stew,” find the meanings, fathom the beautiful, the ugly, the nonsense and use it as you will. Has it all been done before? Perhaps. Here is a toast to it happening every year and us playing our part in the play. Every role counts in the reinvention of hope and our place in the infinite wheel of art and time.