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Article: Nothing in isolation: mixing architecture and nature in a new installation, Judy Pfaff found order and disorder in both.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Judy Pfaff's installations have always danced at the edge of chaos, with their tangled or flowing lines implying rapid and impulsive movement. Along with her drawings, these environments ale also about addition, about layering materials, forms and patterns with an energy that seems ready to burst its bounds.
Her three-part installation this fall at Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art in Manhattan was no exception to her preference for visual density. But this time built structure was gaffs central concern, and the work included all unexpected number of straight lines and right-angle relationships. According to gallery information, it was inspired in part by her Victorian ...