Artillery: A Comic/Cosmic Phenomenology
Spray Deodorant Caps, 1970, oil on canvas, 13" x 20"
Excerpt from article by Ezrha Jean Black, artillery, July 13, 2023
Martha Alf — A comic/cosmic phenomenology
Martha Alf: Opposites and Contradictions — Michael Kohn Gallery
by Ezrha Jean Black | Jul 13, 2023
I came to this show of Martha Alf’s work as a novice. (I mean that almost reverentially—it’s the sort of work that sends me back to a kind of intellectual nunnery where I feel compelled to repent my inattention and failure to carefully and precisely observe.) Alf’s work generally, and this beautiful, thoughtfully curated exhibition in particular, take us back to first light, first sight and…