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Article: Joy Episalla at Debs & Co.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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Joy Episalla takes photographs of things that are inconsequential, unlovely and just plain boring. But by approaching them with the fixated attention of a forensic examiner, she imbues these calculated mundanities with a hushed wonder. Her subjects are details of domestic interiors that show wear, each smudge evincing past occupants and lost times. Often her viewpoint is so close to the subject that the large-scale color photos slip gently over the border into abstraction, an especially pronounced effect in those works that Episalla physically "dissects."
Both of the first pieces we encountered in her recent show (12 works, all 1999), Footnote #1 and Footnote #2, ...