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NEUROTIC REALISM

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Mar 10, 2025
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Installation view, Gary Kuehn, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, 1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute.
GARY KUEHN: IN SITU (CANTOR FITZGERALD GALLERY, HAVERFORD COLLEGE, HAVERFORD, PA)

Is it unfair to beat up on a college art gallery for what they’ve done? Small, early sculptures arrayed on a shelf like tchotchkes; definitive works, best viewed in-the-round, shoved against the walls or crammed in a corner; a video interview with the artist, Gary Kuehn, readily available on YouTube, projected onto one of the space’s few remaining surfaces, the volume cranked up so loud as to become a sort of bleating sound installation. Navigating the compact gallery’s complex floor plan, I felt as though I had been locked inside a hoarder’s labyrinth, even though the cluttering objects (obstacles?) themselves were relatively sparse: rectangular prisms of wood, lacquered with enamel, and conspicuously bolted together; a length of aluminum fastened to a metal form with c-clamps; twisted ro…

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