by Joseph A. Hazani September 17, 2021
Mr. Justin Adian presents us with his most recent exploration in the medium of felt with his Carousel opening at Lowell Ryan Projects. With more than a dozen wall canvases, we have the presentation of the comfort and relaxation of inexactness, as a soothing relief from the endless pursuit of perfection. His selection of colors themselves do not yearn to be boisterous with our....
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by Joseph A. Hazani September 15, 2021
Amalia Pica’s Accumulations and Overlaps at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is another potent demonstration of artistic creativity being very much a product of the environment as much as the artist herself. Ms. Pica, as is the rest of world civilization, is being contained by an invisible pestilence which is slowly, almost tauntingly, remaining airborne and infectious on Planet Earth. Her environmental....
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by Joseph A. Hazani August 25, 2021
Malcolm Gladwell proposed in David vs. Goliath the need for an inferior opponent to defy convention in order to survive. The Oakland Athletics baseball organization is a quintessential demonstration of this demand imposed by the natural circumstances of needing to compete with teams with necessarily larger fan bases and therefore larger purses to build wins. Billy Beane, the General Manager of....
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