Pen and ink
“New Works,” by Emily O’Connor at the Gingko Gallery until December 3. Reviewed by Pat Unger. Drawing is a skill that is common to both the fine arts and the graphic arts. Emily O’Connor’s pen and ink works, in uncompromising black and white, waver between the two. The works at the Gingko Gallery are conventional. Their subject matter ranges from the external and obvious to
the private and imagistic. Formality is maintained along with those wellestablished graphic maxims make use of unusual angles, of unusual situations and of unexpected points of view. O’Connor’s uniqueness is her line. Randomly elegant, it is a tangle of loosely knotted penmarks that shape figure, dimension, and story. And with this intricately disordered line, she is able to also ensnare tonalities and space. Ambiguities between
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Press, 21 November 1987, Page 15
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