The Slow Joy of James Siena's Intricate Compositions
The deepest pleasure of Siena’s drawings was giving up the search for what generated them and getting lost in the intricacies of the composition.
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The deepest pleasure of Siena’s drawings was giving up the search for what generated them and getting lost in the intricacies of the composition.
Call it a new wrinklethe surfaces of James Sienas recent works on paper bob and weave all over the place, often resembling a rattlesnakes shed skin. And yet, despite the novel look of the twenty pieces now on view at Miles McEnery, the Siena of old is still palpably present: the obsessive drawing, the horror vacui, the meticulous delineation of every shape.
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