August 31, 2004
Lines I wish I wrote, #2
In a review of Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists in the September issue of Frieze, Tom Morton writes:
The cover image of Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, the catalogue of a does-exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin show curated by Matthew Higgs at San Francisco's CCA Wattis Institute earlier this year, is frankly a little terrifying. In a photograph by Helen Cantrell, the artist Mary Kelly lounges by a pool in a pink vest top, looking for all the world like an Annie Liebovitz-snapped Beverly Hills starlet. Only Kelly's hands, which seem poised for a karate-chopping act of critical deconstruction, and her hair, which is pinned up in a huge bun resembling an auxiliary brain, serve as reminders of her noted austerity.