Slog - Comments on Mary Temple and the Doubting Zone http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mary_temple_and_the_doubting_zone Mary Temple spent weeks at Western Bridge making a huge painting that opened to the public last weekend. (The image above is from an earlier, similar installation on the East Coast.) The painting is extremely quiet. It is white paint on white walls, and depending on the light, it can almost disappear entirely. It is painted to fool you into believing, at least for moment, that it's not there. When you walk in, it looks like there's nothing in the room at all, just the shadows and light beaming in from the windows of the building. This is what... Copyright 2008 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:00:00 -0800 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:06:18 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by mike We recently saw the pair that are up at SF MOMA. It was thrilling, easily the best looking experience in the museum, and led me into an extended rant on minimalism, absract expressionism, 20th century art criticism and theory (discovering in the process that SF MOMA is light on even example canvases for high Ab Ex stuff, I suppose to NY won't ship anything west). It was hella fun, and the representational content of the images make them extremely accessible. Running from piece to piece in a venue like MOMA is really, really enjoyable.

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Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful day.

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