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Article: Harriet Korman at Lennon, Weinberg.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Harriet Korman uses what is familiar to arrive at paintings of uncommon openness and vulnerability. The oil paintings in this show, dated 1999 to 2001, are derived from simple compositions of overlapping lines with color filling in the empty spaces. This is the kind of exercise that's been given in Saturday morning art classes for about as long as anyone can remember, but in Korman's hands this timeworn device makes perfect sense. She is the most sophisticated of guileless painters. Her evident abhorrence of obfuscation is a generous quality that contains the hint of a moral stance.
In structuring her paintings, Korman employs combinations of grids, curves and ...
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