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Article: Liz Ward at Dunn and Brown Contemporary.(Dallas)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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For more than a decade, Liz Ward has been devoted to the study of natural forms and the sense of time implicit in growth and decay. Best known for silverpoint drawings inspired by tree rings, she recently turned her attention to other botanical structures, such as stomates, the mouthlike openings in the cells of leaves. Unlike many viewers, I am drawn to her work less by the microscopic subject matter (although the sweet sincerity and lack of ironic distance are themselves qualities worth praising) than by the airy draftsmanship, obsessive process and exquisite sense of color.
Referring to the onset of spring signaled by the greening of mesquite trees in south ...