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Article: Tom Marioni at Yerba Buena Center.(San Francisco)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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This very selective survey of the work of Bay Area conceptual artist Tom Marioni was first and foremost an exercise in balanced understatement. Titled "The Golden Mean," the show comprised three distinct components that were carefully orchestrated by the artist to address the tension between the functions of the gallery as a site of contemplation and as a site of social interaction.
The first component consisted of two series of modestly scaled colored pencil drawings on tinted paper, one titled "11 Line Drawings" (1998) and the other "7 Line Drawings" (2002). Like recordings of the most subtle seismic shifts, all had been generated by making repeated marks ...