By Mario Naves 11/14/05 12:00am

With Chance and a Quick Brush, Artist Invents Nocturnal Dramas

Was it Plato who remarked that seeing an image in the clouds signified nothing so much as the lowest form of the imagination? You wonder how the old contrarian would appraise Roland Flexner’s recent works-on-paper on display at Caren Golden Fine Art. Mr. Flexner divines images within smears and stains of ink.

Employing a traditional Read More

By Mario Naves 12/16/02 12:00am

Channeling Cozy Nostalgia, Neatly Skipping Sentimentality

Two of the words I like least in the lexicon of contemporary art are “appropriation” and “irony.” The former connotes a facile borrowing of style and/or imagery; the latter a smug indifference to purpose. Neither term is bandied about as promiscuously as it once was, but that doesn’t mean they’ve lost their currency-on the contrary, Read More