Posts Tagged ‘Meryl Brater’

Meryl at the Rose

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Hun­dreds of peo­ple came to MERYL BRATER’s Memo­r­i­al Exhi­bi­tion at the Rose Art Muse­um. We all believed that Meryl would live on at the Rose, and that many gen­er­a­tions to come would have the chance to know her through her art. To close the muse­um now would be a ter­ri­ble blow to every­one who loved her – to every­one who trust­ed their trea­sure to the Rose.

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Working Proof: Experimental Etching Studio

Saturday, November 21st, 1992

Ten years ago, I spent a very hap­py sum­mer work­ing at Exper­i­men­tal Etch­ing Stu­dio, so I was delight­ed when the Boston Pub­lic Library invit­ed me to help shape a con­ver­sa­tion among a group of artists from this extra­or­di­nary print­mak­ing cooperative. 

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12th Annual Boston Drawing Show

Saturday, April 13th, 1991

GERRY BERG­STEIN’s draw­ings show scrib­bles, scrawls, cross­ings-out, angry re-work­ings, mark­ings of strug­gle and doubt. From this chaos of marks on paper emerge lumi­nous lit­tle still lives, marked by the process of decay: visions of a world in flux, where every­thing is chang­ing, grow­ing, liv­ing, dying, and being reborn. 

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Ruins at the Rose

Friday, December 8th, 1989

The 80’s began with big, shiny, self-con­fi­dent paint­ings, but they are end­ing with of shreds and tat­ters, and anx­ious pre­mo­ni­tions of a ruined world. They remind­ed me of the end­ing of William Gib­son’s sci­ence fic­tion nov­el Count Zero, when a bril­liant com­put­er dis­tills the few remain­ing frag­ments of a ruined civ­i­liza­tion into exquis­ite lit­tle con­struc­tions. Or these lines from a Shake­speare son­net; “bare, ruined choirs, where late the sweet bird sang”.

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