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Article: Mette Petri at William Turner. (painting) (Venice, California)(Review Of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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It is entirely apposite that Mette Petri should exhibit her lightcrazy paintings at the William Turner Gallery in Venice, California, for they suggest nothing more than those of another William Turner, artist of another Venice. Instead of J.M.W. Turner's burnished golds and blues, however, Petri works in variegated blacks, browns, plums and greens, radiant whites and moody flesh tones--which, in this Copenhagen-born artist's singular vision, are the symbolic shades of the female sexual topography.
Petri's subject is the graphic representation of women as sexual beings. Her paintings do not lend themselves to figurative description, although their imagery is ...