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Article: LOIS SILVER'S MODERNIST ART REVISITS A BYGONE ERA WITH EDGY NOSTALGIA.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 5, 1997
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Art is a river with many tributaries, some of which lose themselves in solitary dead ends and some of which - contrary to aesthetic law - flow backwards.
Now showing at the Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle painter Lois Silver manages to animate the backward motion of her style. Because most such efforts are born tired, her achievement is worth noting.
Why do what has been done? Little credit accrues to the person who invents something that's already here, whether it's the internal combustion engine or Cubism. Repeating the past makes as much sense as hanging an old calendar, especially in the 20th century, dominated by the modernist injunction to ``make it ...