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.

Mark LaRiviere & Cathy Ramey
2022.6.7
What a gift to find a beautiful gallery with stimulating art in Fleischmanns, NY, surrounded by the dramatic mountains of ski-country near Hunter. Sculptor Mark LaRiviere and painter Cathy Ramey have jointly exhibited their work made during the isolation of Covid, and though so different on the surface, I found remarkable parallels deeper within. Both artists express a yearning and sadness, maybe nostalgia for a dream never had, both nevertheless seem to hold onto a hope, and both use such powerful formal elements while working in what feels to be a quiet internal meditation. The show is up through next weekend.

Mark LaRiviere

Cathy Ramey

Mark LaRiviere

Mark LaRiviere, 3/4 view.

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Mark LaRiviere, frontal

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Mark LaRiviere, 3/4 view

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Mark LaRiviere, 3/4 view from

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Mark LaRiviere, frontal

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Mark LaRiviere

Mark LaRiviere

Mark LaRiviere

Cathy Ramey

Cathy Ramey

Cathy Ramey

Cathy Ramey

Cathy Ramey

Cathy Ramey

Cathy Ramey

Cathy Ramey