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ArtArtistic object may be too crude for the viewerBy ANN SCHECTERSun Art CriticIn today’s art world, practically any creation is considered “art.Because an artist uses visual elements, not language, it is often a trying experience to appreciate and understand exactlywhat has inspired the creator. Words like harmony, form, and design seem to have no place in these ambiguous expressions. When does art become toogross for the viewer? There may be an answer in “Directions: Color Photographs by Jeanne Dunning, currently on view at Washington’s Hirschom Museum.Dunning has created bizarreimages in photographs, video works and sculptures in latex that depict nudes, body landscapes with dislocated appendages, a hairy mole, tresses of thick hair, a third breast. Onevideo, in particular, depicts a woman sucking her own toe, and another of her creations features side-by-side photographs of a drooling woman and a stewed tomato.According to the exhibit’s curator, Dunning “explores the gray areas between fact and fiction” in these images, and “like the Surrealists before her” intends the viewer to be attracted and repelled by her images at the same time.At the gaHerlee...Whistler House Museum,LowelL “A Neighborhood of Change: The Acre Then and Now, through Sept. 11.Concord Art Association,opening reception Sunday, Sept. 10, 5-7 p.m., for the New England Watercolor Society’s annual juried show. There willdemonstrations by artists Elizabeth Pratt, Sept. 13, at 2 p.m.and by Sergio Roffo on TuesdaySept. 20, 7-9 p.m.
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