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Article: Bruce Pearson at Ronald Feldman.(NEW YORK)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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"Look at any word long enough," Robert Smithson wrote, "and you will see it open up into a series of faults, into a terrain of particles each containing its own void." Far from being a stable thing, language is filled with slippage and corrosion. This is especially important in Bruce Pearson's paintings, in which short, enigmatic phrases, culled from the artist's reading, are combined with intricate, mind-bending abstract forms, often in vivid colors, and other eclectic images that can be just barely discernible. Words come into view only to fragment into brilliantly colored bits and purely abstract patterns.
Pearson's unusual technique involves constructing his ...