Reprinted from:
The New York Times - Arts Section
Sunday, March 25, 2001
Westchester Edition

Beth Watson © 2001
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Ceramic Sculpture

Artists debating whether or not to have a Web site should heed the current exhibition at Pelham Art Center here. "City Rhythms" includes the works of 24 artists and 8 of them were discovered on the Internet. Summing up her experience as wheat might be called a desk chair curator, Titia Hulst said, "Search engines are wonderful things."

Interestingly, the computer search yielded a lot of art in traditional mediums and style, including Beth Watson's humble but fetching ceramic sculpture, "Lower Eastside Tenement Building in the 1930's." . . . . The exhibition's gray eminence is Red Grooms, who is represented by a cartoony lithograph, "Taxi Pretzel." Another food is conjured up by Ray Newfield's "Carapace" in the art center's courtyard. An assemblage of taxicab bumpers, it also looks like a bunch of bananas.