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I love the simplicity,
confidence and directness of Howard’s line. He draws the way
Clifford Brown plays trumpet.
Norman
Thomas Marshall, Actor, New York City
It is always so interesting and
aesthetically challenging when you confront two different mediums.
In this case it is a wonderful complement.
Emmanuel
Benador, Director of Graphics, Jan Krugier Gallery
Siskowitz’s powerful line explodes
across the page with economy, authority, visceral confidence and
flair. Cook’s photographs reveal a sophisticated grasp of
compositional elements. This collaboration outs the subjects with
sizzling insight and smoldering honesty.
Peter
Siegel, Artist New York
What a delight to sit for this project.
Or was it to stand for it? Or run from it.
Paul
Muldoon, Princeton University
Peter C. Cook and Howard Siskowitz
capture their subjects perched in stoic defense. The viewers will
believe they witnessed the quick sweep of Howard’s pen and the
finessed blink of Peter’s lens. Ah, to be the fly.
Ann
Ridings, Curator, Witherspoon Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey
Thanks so much, but I'm not interested
in my own portrait, especially doubled.
Joyce Carol-Oates
The idea of sitting for a portrait is
not entirely repulsive.
Dr. J. T.
Bonner, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
Great traffic. Wonderful commentary.
Brian Hill,
Curator, Ellarslie Museum
In the photograph, I look like a man
thinking about what he wants to say. In the drawing, I look like a
man who said what he wanted to say and is willing to defend it.
Dr. Geddes
Hanson, Princeton Theological Seminary
I've seen a lot of images in my
day--this project gets it right.
Daniel Gerzog, Pratt
Artists Who Come Highly Recommended at Pleiades Gallery...
Howard Siskowitz is an artist with a strong graphic signature,
and a "collaboration of art forms", in which he and the photographer
Peter C. Cook both exhibit portraits of the Playwright
Christopher Durang,
creates an auspicious context in which to show it off. Siskowitz
captures Durang's big eyeglasses, turned up nose, and thatchy Dennis
the Menace bangs, suggesting a puckish personality in a swift line
drawing with Zen-like economy of means.
By contrast, in Peter C. Cook's tonally exquisite black and white
photograph, the playwright projects a more owlish image, as he takes
the viewers' measure with one eyebrow arched over his specs and his
black suit jacket wrapped around his shoulders like a monk's cowl.
Jeannie McConnack
Gallery & Studio, The World of the Working Artist, NOV-DEC 2005/JAN
2006
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