Three Women At New Langston review
Magical procedures happen to be a theme in this show, too. There is a quality of the fairy-tale grotesque about Giulini’s “Untitled (Bananashoes).” Here pairs of shoes made from stitched-up banana peels sit atop a row of glass shoe boxes. The paradox in making shoes from stuff that symbolizes a pratfall turns to pity for […]
San Francisco Examiner review
Nöle Giulini’s notion of metaphor is subversive. Her most striking work, golden pellets heaped on the floor and spotlit, plays with the medieval tradition of alchemy that sought to transform dross into gold…Alchemy has re-emerged as a powerful metaphor for the artistic endeavor in the work of people such as the German Joseph Beuys and […]