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Brooklyn Rail /Kes Zapkus: New Paintings By Hovey Brock

Hovey Brock, for Brooklyn Rail: “The artist and critic Marjorie Welish has compared Zapkus to James Joyce in his level of encyclopedic ambition. Indeed, looking at a Zapkus painting is much like reading a page of Finnegans Wake: each take lays a new set of meanings as the lines, dots, and polygons coalesce into an alternate constellation of references. However, there is another aspect of Joyce that deserves comparison, and that is his satirical edge.” [PDF]