Stephen Ellis | Observer

By Mario Naves 12:00am

Though Uncertainty Continues, Ellis Lets Paint Do the Talking

Sept. 11 has occasioned a lot of art, and most of it is lousy. No surprise, really: It’s rare to find a painter, novelist, playwright or filmmaker who can tease out the nuances of actual, often devastating events or bring order to them. The typical artist robs history of gravitas by burdening it with sentiment Read More

By Mario Naves 3/06/00 12:00am

Canvases With a Taut Resolution Between Representation and Form

To state that Lois Dodd’s landscape paintings, now at the Fischbach Gallery, reconcile realism and abstraction is to reiterate an artistic platitude. Any painter–or, it should be said, any painter of substance–working from observed phenomena takes into account the formal peculiarities of the medium when shaping a picture. Yet the line Ms. Dodd tiptoes between Read More

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Though Uncertainty Continues, Ellis Lets Paint Do the Talking

Canvases With a Taut Resolution Between Representation and Form

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