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"Elizabeth Berdann: Wonders, Curiosities & Conundrums" at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
In February 2010 my solo show opened in Hawaii. It runs through May 16, so if you are in the area please come see it. It is a survey of my work of the last 20 (yikes) years, including some oldies but goodies like "The Wall of Tongues" and "30 of my Worst Features", and some new work as well, such as "String of Pearls", my 2009 installation inspired by Thomas Seir Cummings' 19th century "A Mother's Pearls" necklace in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. If you can't make it to Honolulu (poor you, what a gorgeous spot!), I have posted a slideshow of the exhibition on Fotki.com Click the link below.
Also, in a thoughtful review of the show in the Honolulu Advertiser, David A.M. Goldberg writes: "The traces of her fantastically accomplished brush and the intimate strength of her vision can be easily appreciated according to standards set in most art survey classes. But Berdann undermines rote seeing through a harnessed cinematic energy, as the eye moves from portrait to portrait, moment to moment, confronted with the flow of time through the sometimes graphically troubling phases of human life."