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Gabrielle Selz
Southampton/New York/Berkeley
Writer, Art Critic, Storyteller
Interests: art, friends, stories, alchemy, Paris, New York, trees, laughter, desire, exotic food, minds that think, connecting the dots, the coast of northern California
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I wasn't using it anymore. Hadn't been using it...
I wasn't using it anymore. Hadn't been using it for a number of years. Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2016 at Alchemy of Art
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William Kentridge: How to Leave a Concrete Trace in the World
An answer is an end and an end closes the loop, shuts off the field of exploration. Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2014 at Alchemy of Art
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Art Review: Creating Art Out Of Their Element
Published in Hamptons Art Hub October 31, 2013 Clay as mineral paint, invisible form, and gilded vessel: this is the basic notion and starting point for the work of the three artists in the current show on view at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City. Beyond this point of departure... Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2013 at Alchemy of Art
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Christine Sciulli and the Geometry of Light
All the visual arts use light in some form, but for artist, Christine Sciulli, light is the graphic kinetic tool with which she activates and shapes space. Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2013 at Alchemy of Art
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Considering Perception: Robert Irwin and James Turrell
For years now, ever since 1980, I have been thinking about both Robert Irwin and James Turrell and the mutability of not just things, but space itself. Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2013 at Alchemy of Art
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Jay DeFeo's Rose Has Wings
The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. Continue reading
Posted Jun 9, 2013 at Alchemy of Art
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Art Review: Jack Youngerman's Visual Language
Published in The Hamptons Art Hub June 3, 2013 The French call it, le menu degustation. In restaurant parlance this means to taste and carefully savor a delicate sample of everything the kitchen has to offer provided by the chef. The show on view at The Drawing Room in East... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2013 at Alchemy of Art
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Agnes Denes: Art Ad Infinitum
Her sculptures move beyond the concrete, to a place of open-ended, free reign, Her materials, whether wheat or trees or even a human life, stretch into the infinite. Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at Alchemy of Art
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Doug Wheeler Distills Infinity
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I happen to be a great proponent of art that encourages active participation. Where the permeable boundary is pierced and we are encouraged to climb inside the artwork. Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2012 at Alchemy of Art
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Tight Spot: The Meeting of Truth and Paranoia
All recognizably representational art is a distortion. And these distortions can be either formal or emotional. However, in Tight Spot, Byrne has done both. Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2011 at Alchemy of Art
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The Outside Insider: Taravat Talepasand
(as published on The Huffington Post - 5/25/11) "I am always an outsider looking in," says Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand. "By portraying myself in different cultures I start to understand how another culture might see, and where they might place me." Indeed Talepasand's current body of work, now on view... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2011 at Alchemy of Art
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The Egg, Inside & Out
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"My approach to conceptual art, and I believe this was Sol LeWitt's approach, is that this art is not removed from nature, but connected to it." Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2011 at Alchemy of Art
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What’s Black and White and Tread All Over?
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One of the gifts of art is that it allows us to image ourselves into another’s experience. Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2011 at Alchemy of Art
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Diviner Dennis
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And in truth, like the art he created Dennis could be wickedly demonic, widely clever, beautiful all at once. Continue reading
Posted Jan 24, 2011 at Alchemy of Art
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ANISH KAPOOR – As Yet Untitled (Echo & Narcissus at the Met)
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Art, like Ego begins with invention, with the moment the self is born and recognized. Without an imaginary, autobiographical self, without Ego, there is no art. Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2011 at Alchemy of Art
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BIG BAMBÚ
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BIG BAMBÚ A Connecting Network or Why I Love Being Enlightened When identical twin brothers, Doug and Mike Starn, burst onto the art scene fresh out of school in the 1980s as a single artwork entity known as the Starn Twins, it was not a case of love at first... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2010 at Alchemy of Art
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2010 at Alchemy of Art
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Red & Rothko
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Saw the play Red last night on Broadway and was struck by the paintings Mark Rothko was working on at the time the play takes place, and their relationship to the temples in Pompeii. Rothko used to spend time sitting in front of the Roman wall paintings from Pompeii at... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2010 at Alchemy of Art
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