Mixing art and politics is always risky. Art can easily become sentimental, bombastic, or downright preachy. But New York artist Regina Granne resists those traps in her War Games drawings. Her small-scale, delicate colored pencil and graphite works address the unpopular war in Iraq by picturing the literal and emotional distance through which we understand the war and its casualties. Granne achieves this detachment by depicting objects — maps, bar graphs, satellite photographs, children’s… View Full Essay

"We always may be sure that every man-made thing arises from a problem as a purposeful solution." George Kubler The Shape of Time   In her current exhibition Regina Granne examines the most intractable problem of all, organized human violence—war, in short—and devises works that demonstrate the variety of forms in which our culture has conditioned us to literally see its solution. Granne finds her material in the graphic notations and images that inform us about world-wide armed struggle: photos, of course, along… View Full Essay