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  Meanings surface in textured paintings of Ben Parsons His favorite tools are a rolling pin, razor blade and electric sander.  His work is scarred, peeled and gouged.  His focus is on surface texture.  And yet Ben Parsons is thoroughly a painter, and a formalist  at that (“religiously so,” he says).  His abstract paintings do…

Jef Scharf basement installation june 12 – july 12, 1998

History / Hystery  by Mona Gazala  Below the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, reached by a narrow stairway, there is a small cave that is reputed to be the birthplace of Christ.  My mother, who was raised a few miles away in Ramallah, is familiar with the place.  The cave has been turned into…

White  –  Aaron Beebe I never bothered to ask what had induced this skinny, pasty-faced white kid to take such an interest in the Arabic language that he would want to integrate bits of Arabic print into several of his paintings, or to play Arabic pop music (Al-Jazeera meets ‘Nsync) at a gathering in his…

Untitled (Inflated Space) Vincent Como The exhibition which I undertook at the  Southside Gallery was an installation  where I constructed two large cubes  out of plastic sheeting to conform to  the dimensions of the basement, and  inflated them within the space.  The  understanding was that the work  would lose air throughout the course  of the…

AND THE CRADLE WILL ROCK by Edward Ángel Sotelo  In order to more fully adopt the pose of hoary hipster, I have to say things like, “Gah, I remember the Old Tremont.” Well, that’s a bunch of foolishness. I don’t remember the old Tremont.  Mostly because i wasn’t there in the raw, grimy days of…