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.

Julian Hatton at Elizabeth Harris
2023.5.23

Julian Hatton is an adventurer, explorer, inventor. In his current exhibition of 60x60-inch large-scale, and smaller, more open 10x10-inch (and some slightly larger) paintings at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, he gives us much needed respite from our incessant onslaught of global crises by bringing us through magical journeys of vibrant color, fictional landscapes, and playful experimentation. Anything might happen in these worlds – our childhood dreams reenacted, the memory of a most wonderful vacation brought back, a gift of our most cherished wish come true. Though tough paintings where the form and color have been worked and reworked so they work just right, they also are paintings of freedom, paintings where space has been collaged, collapsed, and expanded into impossible juxtapositions, where Julian’s brush flows to uncensored discoveries of texture, shape, color, and form. Julian Hatton also is an avid hiker, and remembered images and feelings from his recent trips through the dramatic Sierra mountains, California’s Central Valley, and the Pacific coast blend with his improvisatory spirit to create exuberant paintings that simultaneously suggest fantasy and the essence of real place. The exhibition remains up through May 27. To see all photos, as well as past reviews, please go to Instagram link in bio at @entropvisions or my website: www.alicezinnes.com/entropvisions--blog-

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