Exhibitions/Reviews<<< Return to exhibitions Poor Christopher Arnott of the New Haven Advocate* wrote on April 28, 2005: (He was so annoyed! And we were so pretentious. Gotta love 'em - he tries hard.) "You have only a few days left to see the art installation in the lobby of Long Wharf Stage II, a shoddy-looking stack of boxes erected by local visual artists Janet Van Horne, Liz Pagano and Colleen Tully. They claim it "forms a dialogue with the audience members before and after the performances. It creates a space to aid in reflection and to present visually unifying themes in [the two most recent Stage II] plays: perception, longing, defeat and beauty, and the juxtaposition of chaos and order, sameness and uniqueness." Nice try, but this underwhelming, flimsy, pretentious pile of cardboard pales next to true theater installationswe call them sets which are much easier backdrops through which to muse on a play's central themes. The art also comes up short against the classy, eye-catching, well-researched background-info exhibits that have graced both Long Wharf lobbies this season. I stared long and hard at the artwork while attending The Romance of Magno Rubio . Instead of inspiring me to discuss the play, I felt distracted and annoyed." *http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/Arts/content?oid=oid%3A109794 |