Peter Malone
Peter Malone is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail.
A reference to human scale in the title of artist George Trakas’s monograph, Head to Foot (Building Inside and Out), prepares the reader of this first comprehensive book on the eighty-one-year-old sculptor’s work with a useful context. The title references several overlapping influences that reigned in the seventies New York art world: traces of earth art, Process art, the ecological movement, and the body/mind problem of Minimalist theory echo alternately in a Trakas project.
Celebrating 25 Years of Project 59, is a retrospective of Irina Danilova’s longitudinal commitment to a multidisciplinary art that employs a stranger’s instinct for the unnoticed. Applying methodologies cobbled from science and art, but independent of either’s restricting imperatives, Danilova delves into the ordinary and the incidental to create a parallel narrative of her unusually busy life.
