A Few Things Well
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader, Sept. 6th, 1999

Minimalism seems to be getting a bad rep in some quarters these days, mainly from critics who identify that movement with the 70's and thank that artistic styles should be up-to-date. But what if the artists themselves don't identify with the overstuffed and unwieldy smorgasbords of 80s and 90s postmodernism? It seems to me that any serious assessment of minimalism has to consider what it manages to include as well as what it leaves out.

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The Awkward Appeal of a Young Man's Chase
By Janet Maslin
New York Times, March 16, 1991

He is familiar even if you've never seen him before: the lovelorn creep, the campus nuisance, the guy guaranteed to prompt elaborate shows of indifference every time he enters a room. In spite of all this, he is weirdly appealing, perhaps because his efforts to escape his own awkwardness are so clearly doomed.

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