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Article: TALL DARK & HANDSOME; Veteran printmaker Michael Mazur favors big, great-looking, sometimes somber art in an endlessly inventive show.(FREETIME)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 30, 2001
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Throughout a 45-year career spanning some of the most artistically turbulent decades in American art, Michael Mazur has kept faith with an intensely personal vision. Sidestepping the trendiness and isms that litter the cultural scene, his prints, paintings and sculpture grow out of who he is and what he cares about: human dignity, a sense of place, the singular moment, the cycle of seasons, the inevitability of pain and loss, the consolations of poetry, beauty, memory, intellect.
All this and much more are apparent in a darkly handsome retrospective of Mazur's monoprints at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through May 31. For many viewers, including myself, the ...
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