Dateline: September 28, 2011. Given the way context changes everything, it's always interesting to see what happens when artists from New York take their work to the provinces. At the moment, Philadelphia boasts two shows that New York won't see, and both are worth a trip to Pennsylvania. The Institute of Contemporary Art is presenting the abstract painter Charline Von Heyl's first retrospective, while Locks Gallery is exhibiting recent and past work by the conceptualist Rob Wynne.::::::::
IN COG NITO (2011), by Rob Wynne and Locks Gallery
Hornets, drawn with colored glass beads sewn onto vellum, figure in "IN COG NITO," Wynne's show at Locks. The materials might be too beautiful to lavish on a bug, but Wynne gets a lot of mileage from Dadaist absurdity. The insects -- there's a glass-bead spider web too -- are in a patchwork installation of works on paper that go back to his earliest, which includes a reassuring 1972 telegram sent to himself that reads, "I am still alive."
To read the Artnet Magazine article click here:
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/yablonsky/rob-wynne-charline-von-heyl-9-27-11.asp
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