Three exhibitions reviewed: Wendy Mark's monotypes, Beck & Resika drawings, Andrea Morganstern paintings

A review published in The New York Sun on February 26, 2004 covers three concurrent exhibitions in New York. Wendy Mark's monotypes at Lori Bookstein Fine Art feature miniature landscape variations that reinterpret historical masters through contemporary terms. Her work references artists like Wayne Thiebaud and Edgar Degas while avoiding natural disorder through formal motifs. One standout piece, 'Halfway Over' (2000), demonstrates her technique in a print under six inches square. At the same gallery, 'Lovers: The Drawings of Rosemarie Beck and Paul Resika, 1968-69' presents figure studies created during shared studio sessions thirty-five years earlier. Resika's sketches show an ebullient colorist grappling with anatomical discipline, while Beck's drawings display Cezanne-inspired hatchings with distinctive grace. Andrea Morganstern's exhibition 'Nature's Pulse' at Kimberly Venardos & Co. features paintings with delicate surfaces derived from natural forms like bamboo shoots and lightning patterns. Works such as 'Desert Pulse' (2003) and 'Artic Cascade' (2003) employ tender oil glazes that create abstracted, spiritual effects rather than realistic depictions. The review critiques Morganstern's approach as needing deeper engagement with visual tradition rather than Eastern philosophy.