Seamless Portraits: Barbara Bloom at David Lewis

Barbara Bloom’s art might be regarded as an archaeological study of recent civilization. Through sculpture, photography, and text, she explores unexpected visual and thematic connections among art, artifacts, literature, mass media, film, and other cultural forms. She presents her findings in elaborate museological displays framed in scholarly language—all of which suggest kinship with Conceptualists from Joseph Kosuth to Fred Wilson. Ultimately, however, the works, such as those in