Matthew Offenbacher is a very clever artist, but he is also very
sincere. Does art take itself too seriously? His paintings seem to ask
this question all the time, while also having an almost spiritual
dimension. Usually he paints wildlife—linking modernist
abstraction with, say, beavers or otters or weasels—but in
this show, he pushes the point further by featuring his lazy house cat
as if the cat were any other muse-model. The cat is pictured at rest
and in motion; there’s even a view the cat might have had when
it was once stuck up a tree. (Howard House, 604 Second Ave,
256-6399. 10:30 am–5 pm, free.)
Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male... More by Jen Graves
i had a nutty butty candy bar for breakfast. sub-par.