Art Review: An Artist Who Lived To Paint

BY CARL LITTLE, HYPERALLERGIC

Jon Imber, Arm of God (1984), aquatint etching, 22 x 29 inches

In the aquatint etching “Arm of God” (1984), the show’s only print, the disembodied and frayed appendage of the Almighty grasps a solitary man by his upper arm. The bearded, wild-haired man bears what looks like a chisel in one hand and a rock in the other; he wears a look that is part wonder, part surprise, as if responding to the strange force holding him back. The image might illustrate the second commandment in the Talmud: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

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