People Are Strange: Mercedes Helnwein’s “Make It Dark” at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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by Keith Dugas
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Let’s not get too bogged down in who Mercedes Helnwein is just yet. Let us, for the moment, focus on the work which, with Helnwein, is a writer’s dream. No matter how you attempt to describe her art, you can’t really go wrong, given that one avoids words like “convivial” and “uplifting”. Helnwein traffics in oblique, moody…