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Hall Groat II:Contiguous Forms
Published by Roberson Museum & Science Center, 2006

ISBN 0-937318-30-2
16 pages
20 Color Plates
12 Color Plates

Essay by Gerard Haggerty Art Historian, Brooklyn College

Gerard Haggerty is a regular contributor to ARTnews. His writing has also appeared in Art in America, Arts, Artweek and many other journals and he has written numerous monographs for museums and galleries, here and abroad.

EXCERPTS FROM 1000 WORD ESSAY ENTITLED,
IT'S ABOUT TIME

"This little picture evokes the Big Picture that we call art history, including painters like Chardin, Edwin Dickinson, and Groat's teacher Lennart Anderson."

Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox
Published by Roberson Museum & Science Center, 2004

ISBN 0-937318-26-4
36 pages
38 Color Plates

Essays & Articles by
Albert Boime, Art Historian,
University of California, Los Angeles
WHICH CAME FIRST: THE COSMOS OR THE CHAOS?

Nancy E. Green, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings,
and Photographs , Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Cornell University
THE DUALITY OF CHAOS

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WHICH CAME FIRST: THE COSMOS OR THE CHAOS?

By Albert Boime

"The attacks of September 11 and millennial despair undoubtedly inspired the theme of the Roberson exhibition, Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox."

"What could be truer than asserting an organic connection between the microcosm of the individual and the microcosm of the universe, and on the other, what could be vaguer than a declaration of this synchronicity?"

"I believe there are strong ties between art and science on the level of creativity and innovation, and in their mutual search for new meanings and the connectedness between all things. "

"As a group they share the postmodern disillusionment with utopian modernist ideals and logic of historical development and an integrated modern culture in which their work would be a piece of a larger social fabric."

"Fischl admits to manipulating racial or cultural stereotypes, here playing with the notion of black violence within a white precinct of leisure and advantaged sector of American society."

"Witkin sees himself as a "mystic" whose work is inspired by a power outside his control and quotes the 121st Psalm, "The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand." The artist aims to disturb and provoke the spectator, often depicting violent and bloody scenes with butchered ad emaciated bodies."

"Ronald Gonzalez, whose installation of baleful, grinning, and gaping Demonic Heads (2001), exemplify the belief of chaos brought about by the usurpation of cosmic harmony by an opposing force known as Evil."

"Freud likes to chisel away at the heads and bodies of his sitters, building his forms through facets and planes much like a Cubist but working in a hyper-realist style that is vivified through extreme close-up observation in which both human and accessories are treated with equal emphasis."

"Perhaps the attempt to unite these vastly disparate artists under the umbrella of cosmology succeeds on the level of their shared fascination for apocalyptic and catastrophist imagery."