Kuhr+Lyons Drawings
Artist: Alexis Kuhr
Title: Domestic Pyramid II, 2007
Medium: Graphite and Inkjet on Paper
Although I can appreciate the clean and minimalist technique Kuhr obviously has a facility for (what’s wrong with white space, anyway?), I couldn’t help but notice there’s a certain sterility, i.e. it's a triangle!, to the piece that just didn’t translate for me. I realize this work is part of a series, but a miniature version of the same triangle, with the same tip dipped in faux wood paneling (minus the “I�) just didn’t make up for the fact that Ms. Kuhr comes off as a primary-shape obsessive. I let my eyes wander from the first piece to the second and back again but it was a losing battle: her triangles had no soul. Maybe it got lost in the wood paneling.