Clifford Ross: Mountain Redux

Sonnabend Gallery

The narrative unfolding through the rooms of the New York-based photographer’s show approximate a micro-history of art. In the first room, two innocuous realistic mountainscapes smack of academicism; adjoining rooms add impressionistic hues and expressive details. Over another threshold and the narrative crashes into modernism and postmodernism: the mountain is replaced by its negative; miniature mountainscapes cluster, floating in pictorial space. Finally, the image shatters into colorful fluttering splinters of itself. Closes 6/21.

This review will appear in the June 4 issue of The L Magazine.

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