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Article: Portia Munson at Yoshii. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
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- December 1, 1994
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Portia Munson is a connoisseur of pink things. Her Pink Project, an orderly arrangement of about 2,000 pink objects on a large table, was one of the more memorable pieces in the New Museum's "Bad Girls" show last season. In her first New York solo show, "Paintings and Pink," Munson presented another version of her trademark installation along with 11 small oil-on-linen still-life paintings, five of which were sparsely hung in the gallery's front room. Six "pink paintings" and the new pink-o-rama were waiting in the back.
Munson paints mundane objects associated with girls, women and domesticity which often suggest that things are not always what they seem. For ...