OBJETS D’ART

Greater than the sum of its parts, art can be at once provocative and comforting. Here are my explorations.

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Vêtements

I appreciate the quintessentially-Italian embracement of exaggeration, made manifest in bold color and form. Swaths of vermilion; gold’s glint. Through attention to artful tailoring, French maisons define understatement.

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A Shadow Study

Light and shadow add a layer of dimensionality to public art that I love. Made respectively of weatherproofed steel and aluminum, these two works of immense scale — Richard Sera’s Sequence (2006) and Deborah Kass’ OY/YO (2019) — interact uniquely with light at discrete times of day.

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La Luce

In Italy, light is subject matter.