Harry Roseman at Davis & Langdale. (art exhibition, New York, New York)
From: Art in America
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Date: 10/1/1993
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Author: Heartney, Eleanor
Roseman's paintings on fabric explore the relationship between art and craft. He likes to include defects and flaws in his works as a way to revel in the beauty of hand-made objects. One pieces titled 'Folded Bricks' consists of painted bricks on a linen canvas.
Although these works flirt with such trendy notions as appropriation, simulation and a Warholian confusion between high and low art, their heart really belongs to John Ruskin and William Morris. That paws dismissal of the inhuman ...
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