Call & Response: Mary Lum

Mary Lum, Genial, 2007, silkscreen, acrylic, ink, found wrappers, glacine, 17' x 25'

Gianna Commito recently did an interview with an Ohio newspaper about Call & Response. About Lum's Genial, which is based on a collection of French orange wrappers, she states, ''Mary's a collector, and sometimes the things she collects make their way into her art work and sometimes they don't. She eventually realized that there was something inherent in the quality of the wrappings that couldn't be improved upon, so they are as she found them.'' More of that article here.

Call & Response, curated by Gianna Commito, is up now at Kent State University and closes Nov. 21. Photos by Jaime Keiter.

John Jerome O'Connor

Itchy Face (1), 2008, 13" x 9", colored pencil on photograph

Terror, 2002, 4 x 3", acrylic and ink on newspaper

Random Map, 1999, 52" x 96", graphite, colored pencil, ink, gesso on paper





Nostradamus, 2005, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 53" x 83"

John Gacy 1 & 2, 2006, collage, 9" x 9"
all images courtesy Pierogi, Brooklyn

I have been a big fan of John O’Connor’s work for a while, especially seeing them in the Greater New York 2005 context. He was gracious enough to let me post some of his earlier works that haven’t seen too much light of day. I should have the chance to catch up with him in the future and discuss some of the works.

His third solo show at Pierogi opens September 5...