![]() ![]() This would seem to be where she first introduced her now-signature motif of handwritten annotations on painterly or otherwise tactile grounds. ![]() The drawing was appended with a list of words and phrases such as PRODIGAL RETURNS. ![]() The works here, most of which hadn’t been shown since they were originally made-and some of which had never been seen before-included Glimmer, 1973, a gouache-and-pencil drawing on paper of sharp-tipped cacti leaves, one spraying blood. Schor’s show “California Paintings: 1971–1973” brought us back to the beginning of her career trajectory namely, her graduate-school years at CalArts. A keen feminist analysis is as present and salient in her images as it is in her thoughtful, clear-sighted essays. Her gestural renderings of text are as tactile as her fluid, figurative imagery, treating language and bodies as constitutive elements of consciousness. As a painter, writer, teacher, and recipient of this year’s Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award-in addition to being a dedicated cultural commentator on her blog, -Mira Schor freely roams between art criticism and artmaking. ![]()
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