Reading Gay Block's mind?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

From: Art in America | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

To the Editors:

An unsettling discomfort washed over me as I read Arden Reed's review of Gay Block's recent multimedia exhibition held at the University of New Mexico Art Museum [see A.i.A., Mar. '04]. The show, "Bertha Alyce: A Photographic Biography," features the artist's mother as subject. The article quickly delves into a moral investigation of the motives behind Block's work. Reed is quick to make judgments, and hesitant to offer any broader examination of Block's imagery. Are we to assume that this body of work is simply a vehicle for the artist to explore her own ...

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