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Shola von reinhold5/10/2023 ![]() Distantly, I recalled an instruction to squint when viewing Seurat, so I did that, too.Ĭaren Beilin’s Revenge of the Scapegoat is a weird book, in the best possible way. ![]() For a short time I paced in front of it, goofily leaning in close then stepping back. ![]() Walk closer and the picture dissolves into fragmented dots blinking some unrecognizable pattern. From a small distance, images appear as shimmering figures swimming through Pixelvision water. ![]() Tucked behind a partial gallery wall are 2,400 custom-built LEDs of various lengths mounted on a roughly four-by-six-foot black panel and arranged neatly in a tight grid, like a Lite-Brite for grown-ups or a work of Pointillism by robots with OCD. But the cake stealer is hiding in the back corner of the first floor: Topographic Wave II, by Jim Campbell. The exhibition, cocurated by the Church cofounder and artist Eric Fischl and the chief curator, Sara Cochran, features watery works from forty-two artists including Warhol, Ofili, Lichtenstein, Longo, and Kiefer, and an Aitken that delights. “ Empire of Water,” on view until May 30 at The Church in Sag Harbor, New York, is well worth a wander out east. ![]() Photograph by April Gornik, courtesy of Sag Harbor Church. ![]()
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