Natalie Sandstrom visits the List Gallery at Swarthmore College and analyzes the two exhibitions on display: Henry Bermudez’s Tattooed Nature and Michelle Marcuse’s Holding Absence, which both close tomorrow, February 23, 2020.
Read MoreMichael visits “Piece Together: The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph,” an important retrospective of quilts and prints by one of the most prolific and well-known of the Gee’s Bend quilters of Boykin, Alabama. Part of a tradition that stretches back to the era of slavery, Bendolph makes works that elicits comparisons to the spontaneity of jazz and the masters of modernism. If you’ve never had the pleasure of viewing her stunning work in person (or even if you have), make sure to visit Swarthmore’s List Gallery before they come down on October 28.
Read MoreIn this broad survey of the 89-year old artist and educator’s oil paintings, the figurative works capture ordinary domestic things. In many but not all cases the images depict snapshot-like captures — a ladder leaning against a house; a window and the ice boulders seen through its glass; a red drape partly obscuring a pink window as it billows in the wind. All of these images are partial views, details of a larger whole — Instead of entire windows you see parts, instead of whole houses you see less than a whole. But the works don’t feel incomplete.
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