THE FEMALE GAZE

Diane Edison

Alice Neel

Reviewing The Female Gaze is too difficult. I have only my male gaze. And so I gaze mutely at self-portraits, some fierce as Diane Edison.  Other painters, such as Alice Neel, gaze at women pregnant with the eyes of the future.

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ELEGY FOR A CENTURY OF AIDS

Although the Germans in their wars
shot my uncle and grandfather

and the Holocaust and Vietnam perturb,
AIDS kills my friends:

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Tim Eads’ exuberance confined at Templeton

Tim Eads installation detail, including a french-fry maker visible under the drape, right, with green basket. 
Photo by Carlos Avendano

Tim Eads’ exuberant Species of Spaces feels confined in Rebekah Templeton’s storefront gallery. I like this work. But I wonder how it would blossom in a larger space?  I remember an Environment Paul Thek created years ago at Documenta, a room of sand dunes and art and peace and quiet breathing.  Stuck in that stupid German city for a week I could instantly re-gain my composure in Thek’s room.

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