Critical Writing Index

Los Angeles

by Melinda Terbell

Arts Magazine, Apr. 1971, v. 45, no. 6, pp. 74-75

The author reviews two video exhibitions: William Wegman's solo exhibition at the Pomona Art Gallery, and Janet Webb's video tape presentation at San Fernando State College. In discussing the former, she focuses on Wegman's installations using linoleum tiles and other found materials. The author considers Wegman's videos and photographs side-by-side, highlighting Wegman's grouping of similar objects in a manner that looks at things in a surprising and witty juxtaposition. The author's review of Janet Webb's "Time Pieces," composed of five television sets showing different performers counting away an hour using their own sense of time, calls the work a clever commentary on the video medium, and the reorganization of time by television. The length the piece confronts the viewer with the actuality of boredom, of uninterrupted duration, without commercial breaks.

ITEM 1971.006 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

William Wegman

Time PiecesJanet Webb