HYLAND
One of my oldest friends, an artist, used, as a
student at Cooper Union, to pack carefully a briefcase
with a selection of precious
items which included a
volume of Nietzsche. He
was not reading Nietzsche,
but he figured if he were
run over in the street, the
briefcase's contents would
attest to the intellectual
depth of the deceased.
Libraries, private ones, I
mean, reveal everything
about us, and that is the
subject of Airan Kang's
exhibition, "Luminous
Words," at the Bryce
Wolkowitz Gallery, in
which she has produced
bright, indeed, fluorescent
Photorealist paintings, in
acrylic on canvas enhanced by LED lights, of a library, of
colorful collections of books, some shelved, some stacked
horizontally, some in small neat piles, all, presumably her
own.
Images courtesty
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
