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The Slow Joy of James Siena’s Intricate Compositions
The deepest pleasure of Siena’s drawings was giving up the search for what generated them and getting lost in the intricacies of the composition.
James Siena
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James Siena's Radical Abstraction
The pleasure of Siena’s art arises from the tension between the overall image or the changing visual field and the individual units.
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James Siena Changes His Approach
Siena’s paintings and drawings have become a maze of marks that he seems in no hurry to escape. They are odes to anonymous labor.
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Getting Lost in James Siena's Drawn Labyrinths
As a non-discursive kind of writing, Siena's drawing speaks to a level of consciousness deeper than thought, bypassing the nagging intellect and going straight for the nervous system.
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Points of Contact: Small Works, Giant Steps
The Age of Small Things, a group show organized by the painter Chuck Webster, fills the ground floor of the Lower East Side’s Dodge Gallery, where the singular touch of the artist-curator has recast a parade of diminutive objects into an unpredictable unfolding of processes and ideas.