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# The Brucennial: Piece By Piece (Part 5 of 5)
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/brucennial-5/
- Published: 2010-03-19T14:51:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:49:16.000Z
- Description: And as soon as it started it is now concluded … in our final installment of the complete review of The Brucennial: 229. Lola Schnabel - Generation Next; 230. Tom Fruin - Didn’t like this until I saw the stitching. All our comforts, sewn together in a skin suit; 231. Shelly Silvers - Screen koan. Thi
- Author: Brent Burket
- Tags: Art, #image-position-hidden, Brucennial, Francesco Clemente, Review, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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229\. Lola Schnabel – Generation Next.

230\. Tom Fruin – Didn’t like this until I saw the stitching. All our comforts, sewn together in a skin suit.

231\. Shelly Silvers – Screen koan. This is really good. Loop solid.

232\. Erin P. Sharpe – Sometimes painters just need to stop. Cool the way the background and foreground switch places, but I wish I had more affection for the front of the house.

233\. Narendra Hayes – This one digs a deep hole and finds its way out with aplomb. Not a fear in the house.

234\. Ivan Goodman – I like these, but it’s too easy to see them being bought at an art fair.

235\. James Nares – I know this is a painting, but it still brings [Shinichi Maruyama](http://www.brucesilverstein.com/galleries.php?gid=300&i=11&page=next&ref=hyperallergic.com) to mind, bigtime. That’s always a good thing.

236\. Lena Imamura – The way we see, parsed out.

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237\. Vahakn Arslanian – I wish I liked the drawing more, but the burned and the busted part is totally ON. (NO PIC. \[Seriously. What the hell was going on w/ my camera!?\])

PRESS PAUSE: At least Vahakn Arslanian got an entry. This would be a good time to apologize to the handful of stragglers that didn’t make it into this marathon. Between some tech malfunctions during my visits and the fact that I must have missed the occasional corner there were bound to be some artists left behind. All apologies. Anyway, onward …

238\. Natalie Shook – Crazy moving puzzle painting. Until the last time I saw it it was always in the process of the scramble, and all I could see was the gun. Now that it’s stopped all I can see is the alien field.

239\. Annie Powers – Fabulous. Interactive photo booth, including discussion with the artist. The best spaces were the ones in between. Just like always.

240\. Sam Linder – OK. This was exceptionally sad. Almost unbearable, but necessary. The hard lens.

241\. Herb Fletcher – Not sure if this is a protest against global warming or an ode to bad surfing skills. Whatevernevermind. Gotta admit, it does have a certain power to it.

242\. Unknown – Sigh. Can’t even force a response here.

243\. Isola/Norzi – This shape we’re in.

244\. Ouattara Watts – Ouija alien mutant freaks. As good as it sounds.

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245\. Unknown – No label. Must be another two-day Salle. (UPDATE: The artist’s name is Emmanuel Daval. Therefore this is NOT another two-day Salle.)

246\. David Bianchi – Surprisingly voluptuous, considering the materials.

247\. Krit – Thieves in the temple toni-i-ight. Actually digging the mix of the illustrative and straight painting here.

248\. Mason Saltarrelli – This is an amazing painting. I wish it was closer to me. And when I say that I mean, like, in my apartment. Trusting line, color, and narrative.

249\. Louis Laurita – Gravity is a bitch. One of the best exploitations of text in a painting I’ve seen in awhile. The scene. The direction. Nature. Fucked.

250\. Jesse Cohen – This floats back *into* the wall, which is pretty impressive since in actuality it’s leaning *out*.

251\. Unknown – No supper for you.

252\. Unknown – [The bride stripped bare.](http://www.discogs.com/Bryan-Ferry-The-Bride-Stripped-Bare/master/58734?ref=hyperallergic.com)

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253\. Unknown – What’s not to like about a condom doily?

254\. Donald Baechelor – And continuing with the helmet theme … You could say, “Oh, it’s just another Donald Baechelor,” to which I would respond, “So what. The charm is irresistible. I’m in.”

255\. Art Club 2000 – They’re to have us? (Honestly, I don’t even know what that means, but it’s what I found in my notebook so I’m stickin’ with it.)

256\. Reka Reisinger – Looks like a Franklin Evans outtake.

257\. Eleanor Swordy – Another painting where the artist should have stopped with the background. The figurative foreground really doesn’t work. (Um. I take it back. Looking at my photo, I’m seeing something I didn’t when I was there. Please re-read what I just said, and think of the OPPOSITE. Really excellent. And check how she gets that yellow to move up through the space. Fuck, yeah!)

258\. Hannah Liden – Amazing photo that doesn’t photograph well. Bottles bleed black. (Hey. Wait. She’s impressed me with her bleeding before. Check my [2006 Whitney Biennial review](http://heartasarena.blogspot.com/2006/03/nafs.html?ref=hyperallergic.com).)

259\. Unknown – OK. Couldn’t find the gimmick here. Then I did. Look close. Very close. Nice critique art school budgetary issues.

260\. Nathalie Shepard – OK. No Pink Panther to fall back on this time, but clearly using melted plastic materials is not being done enough. [Summer. It turns me upside down.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bEu9wLDjKY&ref=hyperallergic.com)

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261\. Francesco Clemente – I overheard somebody say that this is the worst Clemente they had ever seen. Agreed!

262\. Mark Dorrance – Please stop.

263\. Nate Lowman – Comic book bullet hole updated for CSI times. Looser than Lichtenstein.

264\. James Brittingham – Not as bold as it looks. Ironically flat.

265\. Stefan Bendell – The raised effect is nice, but the proximity to the figurative distracts from the visual trickery. A shame, because it’s some pretty cool visual trickery.

266\. Caitlin Keogh – Again. Half the battle is knowing when to stop. A good painting buried under all this.

267\. Daniel Newman – Oh, tha HORRAH!!! Seriously funny, and wildly caustic towards fools. Yaay.

268\. Adam McEwen – Shoot. Was I supposed to be keeping track? But seriously, made me think of a Warhol silkscreen in a yearnful kinda way. Love this piece. A fine place to land.

Well, now. *That* was something.

What exactly, I’m still not sure. I don’t know if I know a lot more now than I did when I decided — 5 minutes into it — to fully immerse myself in the rollicking madness of this show. That might be OK though. Nobody else seems to either. Over the summer, The Bruce High Quality Foundation tackled and tickled THE END OF THE ART WORLD with their film [*Isle of the Dead*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDmZYGY5W3s&ref=hyperallergic.com). We knew better though, didn’t we?

We aren’t the Thessalonians, and we don’t need a letter from Paul. Sure. We might *tell* ourselves tales of the apocalypse, but that’s only to comfort ourselves with the sense of control that comes with a finite narrative. The art world we knew yesterday dies every time an artist picks up a brush. I don’t need to bring the Ouroboros into this, do I?

Death and life, one bite at a time. Never confuse the infinite with the definite though. In fact, the only definite thing about *The* *Brucennial* is that there’s a price on everything. Yes. It’s all for sale. Everything else is up for grabs.

Exeunt.

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Slayer – *Reign In Blood*  
Sheryl Crow – [“Leaving Las Vegas”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsZjPK9zNQI&ref=hyperallergic.com) on Spectacle  
Ted Nugent – *Free For All*  
Big Star – [“September Gurls”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA&ref=hyperallergic.com)  
Chris Squire – *Fish Out of Water*  
High on Fire – *Blessed Black Wings*  
Utopia – *Utopia*  
Robert Turman/Aaron Dilloway – [Split](http://www.discogs.com/Robert-Turman-Aaron-Dilloway-Split/release/1606319?ref=hyperallergic.com) cassette  
X – *Los Angeles*  
Muslimgauze – *Zealot*  
Hall & Oates – *Along The Red Ledge*  
Mick Karn – *Bestial Cluster*  
Camel – *Rain Dances*  
Pentagram – *Relentless*  
Brian Eno – *Another Green World*  
Blue Öyster Cult – *Agents Of Fortune*  
R.E.M. – *Fables Of The Reconstruction*  
Robin Trower – *Long Misty Days*s  
Merzbow – *Batztoutai With Material Gadgets (De-Composed Works 1985-86)*  
Coil – *Astral Disaster*  
Candlemass – *Live*  
Bola Sete – *Live At Grace Cathedral*  
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – *Fegmania!*  
Black Witchery – *Upheaval Of Satanic Might*  
Steve Roach – *Immersion : Four*  
Black Sabbath – *Born Again*  
Bettie Serveert – *Pharmacy Of Love*  
Alice Cooper – *Hey Stoopid*  
Alice Cooper – *Love It To Death*  
Alice Cooper – *Billion Dollar Babies*  
Caravan – *If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You*