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 The Palm Beach Post

APRIL 9, 1993 TGIF

  ART

GARY SCHWAN

The artist Reza is all over the lot from the candy store to the killing ground. He's all over the place stylistically, as well. His work ranges from Pop Art to neo-naive painting to kinetic Sculpture to installation work.
  The Persian-born Reza, who now works on Singer Island, has a one man show through April 23 at Northwood Institute in West Palm Beach.
  Where to begin? The candy store: The show contains several super-super realist depictions of candy. For example, a huge, acrylic Almond joy bar is perfectly

reproduced and hung on the wall. It may or may not be significant that "Joy" is ripped away by the partially opened package "wrapping.''
  Some of the more effective works are pointedly close-ups of cakes oozing with fruit filling. A spare, "primitive" painting of a bowl of cherries on a yellow table set against cherry-filled wallpaper also works.
  Less effective are the installations. Take the two stark wooden posts of the kind that serve for firing squad executions. They are stationed so as to "frame" plain canvases filled with bullet holes. The effect is contrived.

 

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