Critic

The Eyes Have It

Critic

Spotted in Harvard Square

You’re that critic

Hostile confrontation

You spent ten minutes at my show

Al Ford’s gallery off Atlantic Avenue

Trashed it

Oh yes I recalled

Circling the exhibition

Describing every painting

Mostly verticals

Pubescent girls on bikes

Huge sensual innocent eyes

Perky breasts

Cartoonish

Glowing Globe article

Former computer programmer

Morphed as artist

Actually

Spent too much time

Back then

Proto post modern

Today probably

Whitney Biennial

Like Lisa Yuskavage

Or John Currin

Who knew

Just a few moments

Lasting impressions

Decades later

Still see that show

Too vividly

Now writing about it

Every artist should get

Such bad reviews

"One is so vulnerable as a fine artist. Randy wasn't phased at all at her opening I was amazed to see. I would have been terrified. Then the vulture circles.. Not an artist at all, yet he feels in a position to critique. Oh well. Create a poem from it. These non-creators are sometimes jealous."

Posted By: Elizabeth Pratt on 10-08-2014, 10:02 pm
"I like the slightly perverse, here, and slyly wicked, an ironic notion, or nature, of art criticism, and time realized by both subjects, artist and critic. "

Posted By: Stephen Rifkin on 10-08-2014, 04:53 pm
"You come out ok. "

Posted By: Jane Hudson on 10-08-2014, 04:47 pm