...Mosquitoes and the Deluge

by Paul Smart

Woodstock Times 7/21/2011

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"Shalom Gorewitz: may I offer you apologies, for not having realized the intense beauty of your stunning digitalized video work over the years...

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For everyone else out there: Gorewitz, whose long career has stretched from the creation of an epochally psychedelic (and subtly politicized) Jimi Hendrix sign off for the old USA Network back in the early 1980s through Guggenheim and Fulbright Foundation grants, plus scholarly works throughtout the best of the avant garden video publishing world...

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...the works have a career video artist's innate sense of movement and color, rhythm and effect, at play...usually with a pitch-perfect sense of odd music accompaniment, to boot.  Sure this stuff is not everyone's lemonade , but for those with an appreciation for the field of visual poetry in motion, and the vast amounts of expression to be found in the large plain between news and poetry, politics and the underlying phenomena of everyday life, this guy's work is sublime."