Wit and IntrigueBY ADRIENNE M. GOLUBExhibition Review of Passion for the Ineffable published in Weekly Planet of Tampa, Florida on June 18, 2003. Excerpt from review: …Dunedin Fine Art Center guest curator, Janis Karam Gallo, mounted separate exhibitions for two young Miami artists, both with graduate art degrees from Yale. Cuba-born Luisa Basnuevo's sensitive drawings and paintings absorb the touch, smell, and metaphor in a life touched by place and dislocation. Cone-shaped eucalyptus seeds are subjects here -- isolated or massed, foregrounded or receding, they invoke the artist's childhood and encoded visual remnants of the human experience. Her fine work, recalling Rothenberg's mysterious "New Image" painting, would have benefited from a smaller exhibition or more variety. Similar subject matter has a way of saturating viewers. Though John Bailly is as internationally grounded as Basnuevo, their work could not be more different. Bailly is one of the more challenging artists I've come across lately. His layered surfaces seem energized from the inside out, the result of his restless passion for social, political and cultural dynamics. In these vibrant allover paintings, some lit by interior hues, linear devices or seductive color continually temper underlying chaos. Like many other artists in this review, these two are worth keeping an eye on. Adrienne M. Golub is the Art Critic for the Weekly Planet of Tampa, FL .view as Microsoft Word document
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