Double Vision

Judith Seligson at Jane Haslem, 2004
Jean Lawlor Cohen, Where Magazine, November 1, 2004
If you love words as much as Judith Seligson does, you'll respond to her text-infused, swirling, cerebral digital prints. If you like your art with some retinal impact (forget the cultural references), you'll go for her geometric, color-saturated paintings llike Channeling Paul Rand, 2004 (left). Jane Haslem Gallery gives us both this month with "Arousing the Mind," a show of Seligson dual (and dueling?) sensibiilities- black-and-white as well as color, mathematical precision and intuitive gesture, secular quotes and the Talmud. What binds it all? The drama of juxtapositions, the grace of random connections. JLC