It helps to have a dense population of young artists competing for greatness.
It is sad that this show will not travel and tantalizing to imagine its repercussions in big, artist-dense cities like New York or Los Angeles.
The substance of The Beautiful Struggle – a kind of hip-hop Portrait of the Artist, denser in its poetry than the new book – is the story of their relationship.
By 1909, both artists were painting dense, faceted still-lifes, landscapes, and figures.
They share common ground with early David Hockney, Tom Trosch's clogged interiors and the dense drawings of the German artist Erwin Pfrang.
Ms. Clyne sat motionless, cross-legged with her cello in her lap, while Joshue Ott, a computer artist, illustrated her dense, playful electronic mash-up of sustained cello tones, plinking music-box sounds, stuttering speech and layered vocals.
Even so, a dense portrait emerges of an artist in midcareer who, while creating some of humankind's most harrowing artistic visions -- King Lear," "Othello," "Macbeth" -- simultaneously exhibited an exultant, giddy, even gleeful pleasure in his own ramifying verbal powers.
But it's a lacunae in our literature that there hasn't been a definitive nonfiction book on the topic, a volume that packs sociology and criticism and history and memoir into a dense sleeve, as a tattoo artist might put it, of meaning.
This year's best new artist roster is dense with could-be superstars who landed the nod via boutique imprints.
Pioneering installation artist Judy Pfaff presents dense, active, detritus beautiful wall sculpture in her show of new work, Sculptural Paintings, at Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, through November 6, 2010.
