Pick pictures
“Almost But Not Quite.” Paintings and constructs by Seraphine Pick at the C.S.A. Gallery until September 3. Reviewed by Pat Unger. Seraphine Pick’s work is a complex array of ideas. Formal issues, identity as a woman, separation, reunion, conflict, control and religion are just some subjects mentioned in her “Preview” prologue. The artist’s desire to be witness to the constant flux of intuitive and learned responses and of the “mystery of changing emotion” is shown in her small works made form wood, copper, velvet, hessian, canvas, photocopy and oil paint. The flotsam becomes the surfaces that support painted human faces, which come and go like lantern slides on shifting grounds, washed up on the walls of the gallery. More impressive are the large hanging hessian canvasses which incorporate masks of female faces and hands. They could be rough-hewn or sacrifical altar pieces.
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Press, 31 August 1989, Page 22
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