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ARTSPEAK
MAY 1987
Artspeak, May 16, 1987

Home is where the art is

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Home
Marie-Annick Brown, "The Blood of Jesus," Goddard Riverside Gallery

"There's no place like home" if you've got one. Somehow one gets the impression that Dorothy wouldn't have clicked her heels together if she was returning to the burned out apartment photographed by Sophia Rivera("Aftermath of a New York City Fire"), although it beats the blanket by David Hammons, stenciled "Homeless," which lies on the floor of the Goddard/Riverside Community Center, at 847 Columbus Avenue, 873-6600, thru May 31. 

No less than 80 artists deliver a message for this show, titled "Home." The show offers humor and tragedy; from Charle Abramson's "Her Nest Was Soon to Be Home" which contains an old photo of a domestic woman surrounded by the makings of a bird's nest; to Juan Sanchez's painting/collage of an old evacuated tenement, which is accompanied by a poem by Pedro Pietri "everybody was moved/away from each other/ to so called better places..."

On the bright side (and I do mean bright), Willie Birch offers "Seasons Greetings," a painting in a collage frame, made of want-ads (houses for sale, rent, etc.). Birch delivers a scene of tranquility in the living room of a black family's home. (The kids are playing monopoly!) This is a show that, pardon the pun, we all must live with.