Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For
Jack Livingston and Peter Boyce, The Journal of Modern Craft
July 2013
Before entering the glass doors to the Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute of Art (MICA), the visitor is instructed to remove his or her shoes—a minor act of supplication. Stepping across the threshold, a pristine space beckons. Well lit and filled with a majestic calm, it is as if the visitor has entered a sanctuary. The entire gallery space is white, including the floors. Ethereal objects, large and small, conceptually intersect, cross, and come in and out of focus, some heavy and some light. It is meditation manifest. This is the world of artist Lenore Tawney. […]