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 Tip of the Week Politically Incorrect/Flatfile
From Fredrick Holland's enormous oil-drenched American flag to Chris
Austin's 10x4 grid of color shots of posters hyping Britney Spears in
the New York subway (replete with graffiti affixed by passengers),
political and culturally critical art makes a comeback in this
sharp-edged show. The most piercing and profound images are Carrie
Notari's boldly colorful digital combinations of photographs of female
nudes in flowing yoga positions and ravishing erotic poses that are
embedded in shots of graffiti-laden walls. In a leap to a new and more
intense level, Notari manages to subvert her New Age sensibility and
present a vibrantly cutting critique of the female-goddess myth;
scrawled over a voluptuous woman with her head lifted and her arms
raised to heaven is the blunt rejoinder, "FUCK." (118 N. Peoria,
(312)491-1190. Through August 31.
Also by Michael Weinstein TIP OF THE WEEK
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