Art City 3 A Ruling Passion (2002)

Many artists use the pain exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves Art City A Ruling Passion focuses on intense personalities whove used their art to explore the emotional impact of psychological truths Everything that Louise Bourgeois creates whether in marble fabric or bronze comes from memory Michael Ray Charles investigates the marketing of black memorabilia using early American advertising imagery Elizabeth Peyton reinvents portraiture using her friends as subjects as well as pop culture royalty Ed Ruschas literary landscapes burst from the physical world right outside the window The comic spirit of Lari Pittman contrasts with his graphic declarations In a landmark house Richmond Burton remembers his dreams to build psychic fields of abstraction The arrays of featureless faces by David Deutsch are stimulated by subconscious sensations