Michael Petry


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Wasifiri  Hide and Seek with Rebels  March 2007

"...The Milky Way and Other Fairy Tales (2004) was an epic installation in which fifty one pairs of hand-blown orbs were suspended within the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York..."

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The New York Blade  Flags of our Lovers: Artist Michael Petry on Gays in the Military  January 26, 2007

"Political art is back, with artists responding to the American invasion of Iraq in full force . . . [Petry] raises intriguing questions. Why should we love our country when this nation forces us undercover and blatantly discriminates?"

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News India Times/Desi Talk  Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West  Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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ARTLIES 51  Michael Petry: The Treasure of Memory  June 2006

"Petry . . . constructs a space where viewers can look at his work like they look at history - from all sides - revisiting old reminiscences and creating new experiences."

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