Article: Demolition Job; Artist Nancy Wolf's Dynamite Views of Modernist Architecture

Nancy Wolf's powerful images of cities are not like anything you've ever seen. At the same time, they are shockingly familiar.

They contain fragments of urban reality, pointedly rearranged: Vast, hard, treeless plazas. Huge, self-important buildings made of steel and glass. Boarded-up windows, trash-strewn streets and other signs of disrepair. Public sculptures. Aimless crowds. Isolated individuals. Street performers, partygoers, people who sleep in downtown doorways.

"I'm trying to show architects what it's like to live in what they've built," Wolf has said, in sharp summary of a quarter-century of making art. In view of her unsettling messages, the setting for a retrospective of ...

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