Ten From TWI-NY: 7-11-07

Ten From TWI-NY: 7-11-07

                                                                                  By Mark Rifkin 

After contemplating Shepard Fairey’s complex and angry world view, “E Pluribus Unum,” at the Jonathan Levine Gallery, head into the back room to delight in Souther Salazar’s wonderful fantasy land.  Salazar’s creative creatures fly through the air, relax in futuristic, alien landscapes, have playfully monstrous dreams, live in tree trunks, and talk to animals in engaging collages with such titles as “This Is the Modern World,” “It Was the Greatest Story Ever Told,” “Lost in Space Again,” “Mr. Smashed Apples Rides Again,” and “Complicated Social Organization.” He also fashions little dioramas featuring cute fire-baked clay figures escaping in a bottle of glue, taking a ride in a lightbulb balloon, standing guard in a tower built on pencils, and swimming atop a box of thumb tacks. (Read full article)