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The Artist Profiles Project: Jonathan Silver
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011. JSilver in studio, 1983. 8220;Silver’s sculpture is steeped in classical and religious myth. It is assembled, however, with a keen sense of modernist history, in particular, of the formal and psychological implications of Cubism and Surrealism. In Silver’s work, myth is not quiet and controllable, but something that grows and evolves on its own and obliges mere mortals to flail away in its wake.” ( Michael Brenson. 1984, The New York Times. Barbarian killing his wife. While trav...