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.

Group Show at MySpace
2023.2.1
I kept thinking of air as I looked at the very different work on view in “Sight/Unseen,” curated by FiveMyles artistic director Hanne Tierney, at MySpace (587 Franklin Street), an exhibition that includes artists in my online community. Emily Berger's paintings of rectangular brush marks thinly painted on wood breathe a resonating air from behind the strokes, as if emerging out of the wood, while the large sweeping brushstrokes of Anne Russinof create whiffs of volumetric air movements in, around and through the strokes. The white and transparencies of the collages by Carl E. Hazlewood create a hovering air woven between the sensitively colored shapes, and Nancy Manter's paintings, though perhaps more suggesting water movement than air, also breathe air through their pores of sheaths of related colors. Gallery owner Darla Ebanks is represented by one small glistening painting with flickers of jeweled air, but to get the full impact of her work I’ve included a photo of her large pieces now in her studio just behind the gallery walls. Finally, AV Ryan’s delicately and perfectly proportioned sculptures breathe air between their metal rods while simultaneously creating air and eye movements connecting all the work in the gallery. The show closes on Feb. 5.

AV Ryan, Emily Berger, Anne

Ruissinof, Carl E. Hazelwood

AV Ryan,

Anne Ruissinof

Emily Berger

Emily Berger

Emily Berger

Emily Berger

Anne Ruissnof

Anne Ruissnof

Carl E. Hazelwood

Carl E. Hazelwood

Carl E. Hazelwood

Carl E. Hazelwood

Nancy Manter

Nancy Manter

Nancy Manter

Darla Ebanks

Darla Ebanks