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Maizels box assembling, Zombic Box I (1990), now held by the Sackner Archive was shown in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of the ICA exhibition "Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections" at the University of Pennsylvania in which the Sackner Archive participated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In these paintings, more vivid colors begin to appear in Seille's work. Roger Cardinal contributes a particularly sensitive essay about Seille's personality. On the WEB, Roger Cardinal's essay: If writing remains one of our most cherished modes of communication, then it is because we associate the effort of transcribing words onto paper with a genuine desire for clarity and contact. Often of course, a person's handwriting is ungainly or crabbed, yet we still attribute purpose to its markings. Messages matter to us, and we are seldom blase when we trip over a phrase in a loved one's postcard and struggle to disentangle the scrawl letter by letter. What we cannot decipher, we gawp at in bemusement. Such bemusement remains an essential ingredient in the artmaking of Geneviève Seille. As a child at school, she fell in love with the sensation of her nib scudding across the paper during handwriting classes. "It was a magical moment", she recalls, "the quiet only interrupted by the...

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The exhibition, curated by Patrick Murphy, consisted of works loaned by the Sackner Archive, Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz, Martin Margulies, and William & Phyliss Mack. The artists from the Sackner Archive consisted of Tom Phillips, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Genevieve Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.