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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

PAUL THEK RELIVED

NEW YORK— The art world is full of dropouts — artists who pick up their work and go off the grid, looking to dig deeper into their obsessions or leave distractions behind. Agnes Martin and Michael Heizer headed into the solitude of the desert, while Lee Lozano made her disappearance into the cityscape the substance of a year-long artwork she called "The Dropout Piece." The lucky artists who do this are recuperated after a while, brought back into the public eye by solicitous curators who believe in the strength of their work; the unlucky ones fade from view. With his current traveling retrospective, the Brooklyn-born artist Paul Thek has been the latest artistic force to be rescued from obscurity. ArtInfo

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