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Rip, Rig & Panic: Resnikoff, Khaisman, Dubinskis

Death of the Sunshine Patriot (front), by Isaac Resnikoff, and paintings by Anda Dubinskis on the walls Isaac Resnikoff’s picnic table looks just right in this hot weather, center stage at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, part of a three-man show that also includes Anda Dubinskis and Mark Khaisman. On the table sits a mix of carved tools, beverage containers, a hand as umbrella, fat candles, a guitar, a gas can–all the makings of a summer weekend of puttering around the house, hanging with friend, or pitching woo. The delicate paint drips applied along the side add a nice touch of dripping sweat, ... More » »

Loving the ghost, questioning the present

resnikoffjeffersonOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Or is it loving the present, questioning the ghost? Isaac Resnikoff‘s exhibit “We Run out of Continent” at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery is definitely about love — for objects, for history, for our weird and wacky country. For that reason and for many others, I love it back. The artist here has made an exhibit both delicious and coherent and, in a city full of patriot-mania, he’s produced a kind of anti-gift shop (that’s also a gift shop!) — a visual essay on our American roots and icons — each one a hero or villain or maybe both ... More » »

We run out of continent

The pure products of Americana go crazy in Isaac Resnikoff’s one-man show “We Run Out of Continent,” at Fleisher/Ollman gallery. Resnikoff’s work is familiar both from a previous showing in the Junto group show at F/O (see post) and from shows at Vox Populi (see posts here and here.) He has outdone himself, here, filling the large space at F/O with a coherent body of wonderful work (left, installation shot of “We Run Out of Continent”).The show, all of carved wood, like much of Resnikoff’s previous work, draws on the mythology of the American good-life, as understood by the common ... More » »