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“Church feels isolated well before the pandemic, lonely in a galaxy of people—in New York City, of all places. The faces and torsos in All Over You form constellations. Though self-contained, they also radiate. The loneliness of the individual is communal, transmitted, understood. The mouths of Church’s faces are all full-lipped but closed. Loneliness so often breeds silence.”
This strained, surreal, tragic-yet-impassioned relationship with love thematically underscores much of the work in Toor’s show, which focuses on how
I mistook a handbag as a sculpture during my first visit to Linda Campbell Franklin’s home in Bolton Hill. Though
The title of this series of abstract paintings comes from a popular game Owens played as a child in Druid