By David Cope

In David Cope's strikingly excessive new assortment, Fragments for the celebs, we see the ongoing improvement of a hugely unique paintings. emerging without delay out of Williams' photograph American degree, Cope's voice is in every single place infused with a attribute stark lyricism-producing the strong paintings that Carl Rakosi has known as his "compassionate realism".

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If she could just take him home & tuck him in, like when he was her baby boy. 26 Hospital Windows baggy eyes & graying stubble-skin, leans on his crutches, at the elevator, staring at a distant window. in a room nearby shriveled forms lift themselves to the sills with heroic finality & effort to see sunlight flood roofs & stoops & gigantic cranes lifting I-beams, in the valley below where once naked men & women fished & rapids sang over rocks. 27 New Moon tonight as my baby sleeps roses & poppies fill her dream.

Who are these children begging here? 56 The Invisible Keys Dead, old John, premiere piano player, found sitting up on his toilet after 3 days not answering his bell; yellowing sheet music, old records, unpaid bills piled on his dresser; clock radio blaring the latest hits, the morning news; government checks stuffed in the mailbox, unclaimed; no relatives, no claims for his things, landlord to arrange his funeral. spot on the sax, he's on his knees making that thing scream just above the heads of the dancers who're humping it, sea of heads jumping in the dark, smoke haze up in the lights & now it's John's turn, bass thumping raw nerves underground raging river, he lights into those high keys, staccato fingers flying faster & faster, sweat dripping off his eyebrows, 57 crashing cymbal & snares & high hat clanging!

His wife sits in shade nearby turning pages, maple leaves above moving soundlessly. 33 At the Summit looking across a vast chasmwrinkled & folded hills & distant, higher mountains, snow-cappedsun & shadowthe land rises to gigantic red cliffs, cracked-tiny spruce & aspen grow out of the cracks precariously over a thousand foot dropan eagle moves above this scene dragging his shadow across the rock faces. on my rock I lean against a dead pine dreaming of you, far away, whose love is firm foundation to this heart, love being all that'll get us thru in the end or make for us new beginningsthe shattered rocks, fragments at my feet, have their own beauty- 34 far below, thin, barely discernible, the roadtiny glare moves among treesI dream, driver & companion excitedly talk of their journey among the rocks, pointing out especially dramatic cliffs, falls, hills, as they go deeper into the wild, mindless of the watchers above.

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