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PostDec press

ARTNET - “The Triumph of the Big D” by Alexandra Anderson Spivey, January 2008

“In ‘PostDec,’ the work by Kozloff, Kushner, MacConnel, Zakanitch and Schapiro looked absolutely fabulous. In refreshingly inventive ways, the younger artists in the show demonstrated that they no longer worry about the status of art versus design or whatever influence they choose to incorporate into their works. Their works obliterate most remaining boundaries between high and low, craft and industrial production, textile and fashion design and the decorative arts. These ideas were broadly represented and expanded upon with great vigor and imagination in works by Polly Apfelbaum, Jim Isermann, Jesse Lambert, Dinh Q. Le, Jean Lowe, Virgil Marti, Suzanne McClelland, Beatriz Milhazes, Renee Petropoulos, Lari Pittman, Eduardo Sarabia, Beverly Semmes, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Tomaselli and Hanza Turgul.”

The New York Times - “Fresh Eyes on a Colorful Movement” by Benjamin Genocchio December 9, 2007

“The entryway to the exhibition stops you in your tracks. The walls of the vestibule are covered with vinyl decals of undulating shapes in bright and funky colors, illuminated by a chandelier of imitation deer antlers cast in epoxy resin. It is the handiwork of two contemporary artists (Virgil Marti made the chandelier and Jim Isermann created the decals), though together it reads like an essay in postmodern aesthetics — distinctions between art and popular culture are blurred, while both artists appropriate freely from past decorative styles and designs.”

The Hartford Courant - “Fabric and Tapestry as Art” by Matt Egan, November 16, 2007