Reviews
John Cage Diary: Information is tactile
Andrew Durbin writes in BOMB: “Language, detail, individuals…rub against one another, stack together to form a kind of visual poetry that strives to give that information definite, personal shape.”
Robert Seydel: “True aesthetic ambidexterity”
James Gibbons writes THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY: “One of the uncanny successes of Seydel’s art lies in the way his sophistication and erudition are everywhere in evidence . . . and yet he could fashion . . . a body of work that harnesses . . . the affecting strangeness and elemental power of naive art.”
Suite Vénitienne: Intrusion of her own creation
“In her pursuit of strangers, Calle presents a kind of artistic Zeno’s paradox: the closer you get to someone else, the more you realize the distance separating you.” —Madeleine Schwartz in THE NY REVIEW OF BOOKS
Dorothy Iannone: The purposeful collision of two
Kate Wolf writes in XTRA: “An evangelist for sexual pleasure and unmitigated female sexuality, Iannone’s bold embrace of sex and love in her work is matched by an equally if not more robust drive toward narrative construction and inventive forms of autobiography.”
John Cage Diary: “Confusion brought to light”
Mary Mann writes in LA REVIEW OF BOOKS: “Whenever Diary gets down to details, Cage is more concerned with changing our reactions to the world than with changing the world itself. “
Robert Seydel: “Ecstatic and melancholic”
Richard Kraft writes in BOOKFORUM: “These works speak quietly, often of everyday things, and yet each leaves a deep impression that lingers long after the book has been put back on the shelf.”