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Article: Elise Asher at June Kelly. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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In Elise Asher's recent paintings, boundaries are not clearly defined and intense colors exert a hypnotic force on the viewer. Adopting an exaggerated horizontal format, Asher elongates space and includes a cast of animal figures that function very much as "portraits" of individuals, though not necessarily human ones: Stanley & Gerard II and Mother & Daughter, for instance, both feature birds. She varies paint textures greatly, from thin, stained passages to obsessively worked-over sections.
The impasto is never thick and underpainting is often evident. in The Game (20 by 66 inches), a complex sky, revealing tones of lavender, magenta, yellow and orange, presses ...