Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave
B1
310.453.7535
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Zadok Ben-David, Blackfield (detail)
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Apr 4, 2009 – May 16, 2009
Tuesdays–Fridays (10am–6pm)
Saturdays (11am–5:30pm)
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Every once in a while, an art exhibition comes along that defies expectation, blows stodgy rules apart, and gets right to a transcendent level of pure, almost childlike, delight. Zadok Ben-David's current installation, Blackfield, offers just such an experience. A broad carpet of sand takes up most of the gallery floor, sprouting a field of black wildflowers — each of which, though small, is richly detailed and finely wrought of etched steel — and it appears that none of the 12,500 in evidence are identical. A monument to obsessive patience and skill, the view from the other side of the field sees the black blooms transform, as if by magic, into a breathtaking riot of color.
