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
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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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