Buy Shaver: "I Don't Know"

Artist reception, Thu., April 9, 6-9 p.m., free, exhibit through April 30, Crane Arts Building Hallway, 1400 N. American St., 215-235-3405, inliquid.org.

by Lauren F. Friedman

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Published: Apr 7, 2009

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"I don't know how else to tell you": That loaded phrase is the focus of Buy Shaver's typographically appealing installation, in which those eight brightly painted words hang, one-per-panel, along two walls. "It's as much about minimalist painting as it is about someone trying to communicate something," says Shaver. "I Don't Know" is effective for the same reason Jenny Holzer's Truisms have had staying power: It means both nothing and anything.

 

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