The other day I was discussing with a friend the success of artwork that attempts to represent the dislocation experienced by immigrants. My friend was searching for a visual analogy for the process (or, rather, over-criticizing the aptness or her own experience as a transplant), and mentioned packing—an image that epitomizes the in-between feeling...
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Craig Drennen’s exhibition Mistresses, Apemantus, and Flattering Lords at Gallery Stokes is a tour de farce of conceptual brilliance and painterly bravura (its lack of actual “painterliness,” notwithstanding). The brilliance lies in the exhibition’s aesthetic translation of Timon of Athens, William Shakespeare’s most difficult and obscure play (though a very loose “translation,” consisting of...
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