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October 1983 ARTnews Volume 82, Number 8 Founded 1902 You can paint with pulp or cast it in a mold, shoot it out with a gun or squirt it from a bottle. [Image] At Dieu Donné Press and Paper Inc., artist Kenneth Polinskie "paints" with colored pulps. The sheet will later be pressed flat. Paper Routes By Ronny Cohen Paper, THE AGE-OLD MATERIAL, HAS emerged in little more than a decade as a vital and versatile new art form. Artists of all kinds- some of them household names, others up and coming- have recently been dipping their hands into the moist, mud-pie material of paper pulp and producing first-rate, fascinating objects. Handmade paper is used alone or in combination with printmaking, painting, sculpture and collage techniques, and along with numerous other materials. because of its flexibility, the medium has yielded an amazing diverse body of two- and three-dimensional works. These range from the small, thin, luminous flocked and sewn sheets of Alan Shields and the glitter- and gold-leaf-adorned cast-pulp relief sculptures of Lynda Benglis to large-scale installations of objects executed from linen paper, bamboo and branches by New York artist and papermaker Paul Wong and outdoor environmental constructions made of recycled wood pulp by Seattle artist Diane Katsiaficas. There are as many possible approaches to using handmade paper as there Ronny Cohen is a critic and art historian living in New York. October 1983/79