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Time Out New York

Palette

By Merrily Kerr

August 16, 2006

“Palette”
Greenberg Van Doren

This thoughtful group show has a deceptively simple premise—color—and it opens with a bang. Naomi Fischer’s spectacularly garish portraits in Day-Glo pink and yellow are installed on a bright turquoise wall at the entrance. It’s no revelation that Fischer’s toxic palette signals her abject subject matter, nor that Benjamin Butler’s gorgeous, geometric landscapes, two of which are installed around the corner, owe much of their appeal to the artist’s considerable gifts as a colorist.  Read More