Poet/singer/performance artist Lydia Lunch once lamented that a producer had made her record so mild that it was like drinking water. “I’d rather drink razor blades,” was her stinging rebuke. Examining Frescura’s art is like drinking razor blades, and it is absolutely refreshing. Café art is often so mild as to be nearly subliminal. Frescura’s work refuses to be overlooked.

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Bart D. Frescura, Untitled (detail). Clay and acrylic paint.

Michael Singman-Aste
Postdiluvian Photo

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