Away Games
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For his latest show at Lori Bookstein, John Dubrow has taken to painting in other artists’ studios — or at least to painting images of their studios — as subjects have come to include artists in their workspaces, There’s veteran still life and landscape painter Ruth Miller in a dashing pair of green snow boots, William Bailey looking pensive amidst his canvases, poet Mark Strand astride a glass table on which is spread an almost neoplastic arrangement of primary-colored volumes, and a home game, so to speak, in the form of a self-portrait. The portrait of stablemate Tine Lundsfryd is two for the price of one in that a painting by her husband Bruce Gagnier, also a Bookstein exhibitor, manages to preside over the composition. It is on the far wall of a distant room, but in the flattened picture space seems to hover over Ms. Lundsfryd’s shoulder, even to caress her hair .
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Mr. Cohen, Publisher/Editor of artcritical.com, is art critic of the New York Sun
