Going the Way of All Flesh, Artistically
Roberta Smith, The New York Times
October 2007
It’s coming up roses on the Chelsea real estate front, but at certain addresses death hangs in the air. Or, more accurately, on the walls. Two galleries, by coincidence, are presenting group shows about the only fate as certain as taxes.
Their message is that all art, basically, is an attempr to explain, fend off or accept death; to commemorate, or communicate with, the dead or deities; or to defy death by making something that lives on. Not surprisingly, both shows are rampant with skeletons and skulls – as universally essential for physical life as they are symbolic of its inevitable end. […]