The title Entropvisions is in homage to my mother, the poet and art critic, Harriet Zinnes. In 1990 New Directions published a collection of her poems titled Entropisms, a word she made-up combining entropy - the tendency toward disorder - and tropism - the growth towards or away from a stimulus. Similarly, my short reviews combine entropy and tropism by suggesting growth towards a vision of art from the chaos of the art world. Through the back door, my title also pays homage to my physicist father, Irving Zinnes, whose long discussions with my mom got her thinking about entropy and tropism in the first place.

Elmer Bishop/Tom Burckhardt show at New Collectors Gallery
2022.3.22

I was lucky to see the Elmer Bishop/Tom Burckhardt show at New Collectors Gallery just before it closed last week, and must say I was more impressed with the Burckharts than Bishops. The Bishops had a wonderful painterliness but seemed a bit flabby, but the Burckhardts had a formal rigor and sense of intention that held me.

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