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Article: Ernest Silva at Simayspace and the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library.(San Diego and La Jolla, California)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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Memory and longing were the unifying threads running through these back-to-back exhibitions: a selection of Silva's recent work, at the Athenaeum in La Jolla, and a survey of his drawings, paintings and sculpture since 1975, at San Diego's Simayspace. Silva's personal iconography of boats, moonlight, men, women, deer and birds has remained relatively consistent over 20 years, as has his preoccupation with the primal conditions of love, loss and deferred desire. A tender, poetic sensibility infuses his work, even where melancholy threatens to overwhelm it.
Silva paint emblematic tableaux in short dashes of color that suggest fluid, shifting spaces, where all is ...