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.

Joe Sultan & Kate Snow at Susan Eley Fine Art
2023.5.6
Susan Eley Fine Art has curated a wonderfully lyrical exhibition of two very different artists whose work speaks to each other through the music of line, proportion, reflections on the grid, and a bit of whimsy. Kate Snow’s delicately balanced gouache paintings feel like meditations, where a color splotch or line is added to create just the right rhythm, where she stops just at the right time, where decisions are made through the quiet contemplation of space and movement. Also working through intuition, Joe Sultan sculpts open constructions that create a sense of play and the rhythmic dance of line against line, of shape against shape. Made from painted hand-cut branches, the somewhat architectural constructions contrast the irregularity of organic tree limbs with the geometry of an engineered building – Sultan trained as an architect – to create a lightness of spirit within quiet personal metaphors of remembered places and people. The exhibition closes today, Saturday, May 6. 

Joe Sultan

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Kate Snow

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan

Joe Sultan