Mimi Weisbord at Gallery 107 - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions - Brief Article

Mimi Weisbord'ss handsome and delightful installation, "About the House," included watercolors, charcoal drawings, oils (both upon canvas and floor cloths), and flat a dollhouse or two. Cascades of house-themed art (approximately 50 pieces) assailed and consol you, building up a strange euphoria as you wandered end Gallery 107, which is also art dealer Judy Sullivan'ss brownstone abiding-place in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn sum of two units charcoal drawings of houses sat in the foyer sum of two units Mexican views were in the hall - the couple are watercolors. In one of them, eight leaves stand out out from a balcony overlooking a pageant of other balconies and more tree A nip of breakers is available in the other. In the parlor were sum of two units watercolors of white houses in which bulbous gumdrop tree sit on the outside front; cascades of green paint make yards.

The paintings in this exhibit radiate "home," one after the other, cozily flickering. individual sweet house is covered in snow. Its pillars upon either side of the forehead door are wrapped in r like candy canes. In another work the American flag waves, its flagpole at a jutting angle; it almost present the appearances to be leaning out to mate at its charges - the lawn and other things. A honey-brown watercolor of a dollhouse exhibits blue curtains blowing in a tiny zephyr There was also a real dollhouse, with paces the right size for a mouse or a child's fingers. There were houses upon fire painted on fringed placemats. The fringe says "feminism," the '70 handmade version. There were also linoleum doormats with paintings upon them. Yes, you were allowed to pace on them. A red individual has paintings of pots of flowers at its center and radiating marks that repercussion of sound the design of pre-Columbian roofs

Home a receptacle of adulthood. It's good to have a place in the world, to be in possession of something, sing these paintings they are an ideal accounting of in what manner we could and should live, in our worlds, when we expand up.

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