Art review: Darkness amid radiance for Isaacs and Minter
Art review: Darkness amid radiance for Isaacs and Minter
The two artists appear to take a poignant departure in ‘Finding Values’ at the Greenhut Galleries in Portland.
by Daniel Kany
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Isaacs is joined in his show by his friend and Portland artist Daniel Minter, whose powerful works effectively use the small side gallery to enlarge their sense of combustive potential. Five of Minter’s paintings include the word “passage” in their titles, and they feature forms of a simplified boat and a henna-style, white line-decorated African-featured head. “Untroubled Passage” also shows a fish within the white decorative lines. At first, these symbols and metaphors telegraph that death doesn’t frighten the untroubled mind. But in the context of the several African-related passage images, the boat form is inescapably bound to slave ships. It’s a disturbing scenario, but Minter maintains the spiritual sovereignty of the individuals who had to endure this hellish plight.
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“An Untroubled Passage” by Daniel Minter.