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Toying with qualms, paranoia

Excerpted from Milwaukee State Journal

By JAMES AUER | Nov. 16, 2004


Halloween is long past, but “Uneasy Places,” a show calculated to undermine your sense of complacency and invigorate every qualm you’ve ever had, lingers like a grainy rerelease of an old Universal horror classic through Nov. 27 at the Dean Jensen Gallery.

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Not that this group encounter with fear, loneliness and uncertainty has the visual wallop of a devil bat flying in through a half-open window, or Frankenstein’s monster fleeing a torch-bearing crowd. But it comes close.

Barry Carlsen, for instance, delights in his paintings in taking us prowling through fog-shrouded woodlands and eerily lighted nocturnal parklands. Vagrant pools of light isolated in the darkness only serve to underscore our vulnerability in the midst of a world fraught with sudden violence and untrammeled hate.

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