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The New York Times -Arts - Sunday, March 18,2001

Helen A. Harrison - Art Critic for The New York Times

Divided by Beliefs, but United in Abstraction

Expo XX

This well-rounded juried show, selected by the art critic Phyllis Braff, features collage paintings by Elaine Clance, monopritns by Adela Liebowitz, David Herman's schematic abstractions, photographs by Victoria Gewerz and Joy Goldkind, mixed-media collages by Luigi Ermini and sculpture by Shayne Dark. 

In addition to choosing the exhibitors, Ms. Braff awarded a cash prize to Mr. Dark, who uses glass fragments and ball bearings to create circular wall and floor pieces that transform the character of their materials. 

Most of Mr. Dark's works are variations on a convex shape resembling a shield. Mr. Dark's most intriguing pieces, however, are made of loose materials, like the mound of shattered glass in "Zero," with its ring of neon submerged in the glistening shards, and "In the Round," a steel bump that appears to be emerging from a blanket of ball bearings that have rolled down its sides like lave from an eruption.   

Excerpt taken from a review by Helen A. Harrison, Art Critic for The New York Times.