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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.

   Reza, who now works and lives on Singer Island, has a one man show; "Chocolate Covered World" through April 23 at Northwood University in West Palm Beach, Florida.

  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 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.
 
  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 riveting.

 

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