Posts Tagged ‘Antaeus’

Gyorgy Kepes

Saturday, March 10th, 1990

GYORGY KEPES paints with a mix­ture of oil paint and sand, which gives his work a rough, earthy tex­ture. He likes to tell the sto­ry of Antaeus, a hero who was the son of Moth­er Earth and could nev­er be defeat­ed as long as he touched the earth. Paint­ing with sand is Kepes’s way of touch­ing the earth.

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Contemporary New England Furniture

Wednesday, June 1st, 1988
Judy McKie, Monkey Chair 1994

New Eng­land is now the cen­ter of an extra­or­di­nary flour­ish­ing of tra­di­tion­al crafts, espe­cial­ly fur­ni­ture, because some very tal­ent­ed artists have turned to crafts as a way out of the cyn­i­cal and cere­bral “endgame” that so much con­tem­po­rary art is play­ing today. 

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