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2 days agoIn Maureen McCabe's Art, the Medium Is the Message
Maureen McCabe uses mixed-media installations and collages to examine mysticism, fate, and American supernatural traditions in a Benton Museum retrospective.
Norway has never looked as wet as in the photographs of the late Tom Sandberg. There are shots of drizzle and puddles, of asphalt slick with mizzle. A ripple of water appears to have a hole in it, a figure looms behind a rain-dappled window, a gutter glows after a downpour. Shot in either bold chiaroscuro or gentle orchestrations of greys, these are pictures with the power to make the everyday seem dreamlike.
"It wasn't trying to show me something, or tell me something, I had the impression that it was asking me a question. I never had that reaction to a painting before."