Can’t wait until this show travels to us in the fall! It will open on November 2.  lacma: The result is a sensitive portrait of a formidable artist, one all but unknown outside her home country, as seen through the eyes of another artist of a different discipline, several generations and thousands of miles removed. The affinities are subtle but striking. Both favor a clear and direct aesthetic. Both are fascinated by the relationship between geometry and the body, formalism and the human environment. Lockhart’s film of Eshkol’s dances, a five-channel installation that weaves through several adjacent rooms, presents the dancers full size and at ground level, moving to the rhythm of a resounding metronome, such that they seem to mingle with the museum visitors — an approach that underscores the fundamentally humanistic nature of both artists’ motivations.‘Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol’ at LACMA is respectful: Art review - latimes.com On view now: Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol 
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Can’t wait until this show travels to us in the fall! It will open on November 2. 

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The result is a sensitive portrait of a formidable artist, one all but unknown outside her home country, as seen through the eyes of another artist of a different discipline, several generations and thousands of miles removed. The affinities are subtle but striking. Both favor a clear and direct aesthetic. Both are fascinated by the relationship between geometry and the body, formalism and the human environment. Lockhart’s film of Eshkol’s dances, a five-channel installation that weaves through several adjacent rooms, presents the dancers full size and at ground level, moving to the rhythm of a resounding metronome, such that they seem to mingle with the museum visitors — an approach that underscores the fundamentally humanistic nature of both artists’ motivations.

‘Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol’ at LACMA is respectful: Art review - latimes.com

On view now: Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol 

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