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Long long . . . in a land before Google<\/p><\/div>\n

Lauren Purje, who shows at Viridian Artists and is just starting out\u2014she shares a tiny Brooklyn apartment, sans kitchen, with two other artists, one of whom I wrote about not too long ago\u2014has a show in December at Buffalo State University. Like the art festival in London I visited earlier this year, organized by two struggling young curators, this Buffalo show is brief. It goes up, runs a few days, then bam, it’ll be gone. It\u2019s like that: before you know it you\u2019re thinking, Did you guys have to leave so soon? <\/em>But that\u2019s the perfect mood for viewing Lauren\u2019s work, which often features friendly cartoon dinosaurs, among many other haunting little line-drawn figures who cluster together for warmth or company or just the illusion of safety in a world that seems to have been evacuated overnight. (My take on Lauren is that if she could suddenly text a brontosaurus, her first words would probably be: Did you guys have to leave so soon?) <\/em>Often, her scenes surround a little figure, with dots for eyes, whose no-nonsense outlines seem at odds with her romantically painted world. She\u2019s dubious about what\u2019s out there\u2014and by out there<\/em>, I mean in the neighborhood of Venus and Mars, not just Brooklyn. Her scenes glow with a harmless look of menace. Bad weather bleeds down from the sky in beautiful colors. A bit of quick thinking cures a bad case of the 24-hour Cartesian doubt. The silence of bush babies hanging around with their enormous eyes make it hard to sleep. That T. Rex throwing a fit just needs somebody to hold one of its tiny hands. And nobody up in here can say whether or not true love is just a binge of chemicals in the blood. Even so, little Victorian-looking children hang around, and one of them floats on a cloud of books, as far from Google as you can get. You go to Lauren\u2019s website and her home page shows a wall with pictures of friends and words scrawled above the light switch: You are free. Be good. Be good.<\/em> If I could afford a pair of wings, I’d fly off to Lauren’s world for a few days every January. A drive to Buffalo for a couple hours will have to do.<\/p>\n

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