RESEÑA: YORK TIMES by William Zimmer - Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
ART; One Show Ponders a Cause and the Other Reviews a Heritage By WILLIAM ZIMMER Published: April 19, 1998 THE Lehman College Art Gallery is divided into neat halves, and for the current exhibition the separation is specifically useful. Each half contains an elaborate installation, which is markedly different in temperament and rhythm from the other. ''Till Death Do Us Part'' by Anaida Hernandez is fraught with urgency, while ''A Town Portrait'' by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is a remembrance of things past. Ms. Hernandez, who is from Puerto Rico, was moved to make her work by threatened changes to a 1990 law in her country, which made domestic violence a crime. In an interview with the gallery director, Susan Hoeltzel, Ms. Hernandez said many politicians had been accused under the law. With the help of a journalist who gained access to police records, Ms. Hernandez found the names, ages and dates of death of 100 ...
