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Makoto Fujimura: October 2004
Mako Fujimura is forging a new kind of art not just through his work, but with his life. An internationally renowned painter, he is also a deeply generous spirit, as dedicated to the welfare of his communitie—the art community, his church, his neighborhood—as he is in the purity and integrity of his craft.
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Alfonse Borysewicz: July 2004
Alfonse Borysewicz makes paintings that yoke the austerity of near-abstraction with an underlying sense of beauty and grace.
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Erica Grimm-Vance: January 2004
In Erica Grimm-Vance's paintings, the human figure swims in a sea of Being: each gesture, each pose is richly evocative of the ancient but neglected idea of the unity of body and soul.
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Laura Lasworth: November 2003
It's an overused word, but clear your mind for a minute and believe us when we say that Laura Lasworth's paintings are haunting. In its original usage "haunt" meant to habitually frequent a place and that's what Lasworth's canvases do: linger in our minds, in that border country between dreaming and waking life, between faith and reason, between narrative and abstraction.
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Melissa Weinman: July 2003
Painter Melissa Weinman is at once deeply traditional and profoundly and quirkily original. All her work, whether in landscape or in representing the human figure, embodies what Joseph Conrad called the primary mission of the artist: "above all, to make you see."
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Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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