review this
(my "Reader Review" from Washington Post Online-these Reader Reviews are wild-they are very, very public. If you keep your comments within reason a posted review has all the makings of a Guerilla Bill Board Takeover-by posting the following I hope I have flamed 'anonymous' a lot and Blake Gopnik a little (give that guy more to think about than relevance)
Posted by Karen Joan Topping on Apr 16, 2003
So what are we reviewing here? The artist, the Post critic Gopnik, the questionable existence of painting? Give me a break! Richter IS a master, his work IS interesting and his influence has been far reaching in his time, evident by all this talk by Gopnik about the freakin' Baader-Meinhof. The actual set up of THE SHOW at the Hirshhorn is what is on the block here, and the hanging is pale compared to Storr's vision at MOMA last year. Storr knows Art and the Artist-the Hirshhorn knows the Sunday museum goer. So if you care about art on more than the weekends, don't expect an epiphany from DC's curatorial offering.
- Karen Joan Topping
- is an emerging artist working in multi-media living in Washington DC. With an MFA from The University Of The Arts and a BFA from American University, she has shown her work in many regional group exhibitions. For Karen Joan Topping, things such as toys and candy are the tools and materials for the making of art. She creates installations, sculptures and video projections engaging in a spirit of play and exploration that are inquiries into attention, emotion and judgment as much as they are investigations of aesthetic practices. By using seductive and nostalgic objects from childhood, she examines how fantasy, memory, hope and anxiety can be explored in space and time as well as symbol and form.
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