Hi Geoffrey,
Yes, I like her work too and wish I could see those
few pieces of hers in Buffalo. Her exhibits in
Scottsdale were encounters with a unique sensibility,
and I'm only sorry I hadn't encountered her work
before.
Best,
Rebecca
--- Geoffrey Gatza <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the link! I'm a fan of Coyne's work and
> we have a few of her
> pieces here in Buffalo.
>
> Best, Geoffrey
>
> Geoffrey Gatza
> BlazeVOX [books]
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> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Rebecca Seiferle
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:15 AM
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> Subject: Petah Coyne
>
> While recently in Phoenix, I visited the Scottsdale
> Museum of Contemporary Art
> http://www.smoca.org/
>
> which had a Warhol exhibit; I'm not a Warhol
> fan, but even so it was was interesting to see so
> much of his work and be reminded how his 'portraits'
> of Mao and Marilyn seemed as much of consumer
> packaging and that multiplication of
> images as of the person, and how on the other hand,
> his individual images, Jews in America, one of his
> series, were individualized and evocative of the
> person, which made me wonder, given the Factory
> aspect
> of his work, its commentary upon productionism and
> practice of it ( it's hard not to notice that the
> colors, smears of her mouth, etc, do to
> Marilyn, artistically, what the culture did, etc)
> if,
> after the Holocaust, the struggle artistically with
> the individual body/name/face isn't invariably
> preoccupied with the exterminated Jew.
>
> Also there was an interesting exhibit of the work of
>
> Petah
> Coyne which I hadn't seen before.
>
> http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=121
>
> There are all sorts of links to other exhibits by
> her
> and also some interesting interviews if you google
> her
> name, if you want to look at more or read more. Her
> work is disturbing and powerful, I was particularly
> struck by her Daphne and also an untitled piece
> which
> was a net of hair, horse and human hair, like the
> flying sweep of someone's hair, across one wall in
> which were caught several now knotted up and
> embalmed
> ducks, like Buber's birds that build 'nests in one's
> hair', though it always hard to say with such pieces
> if they translate when viewing them on the web and
> not
> as the installation pieces they are.
>
> Best,
>
> Rebecca
>
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