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Tom Meacham’s “Greater Good”

James David Morgan wrote this post at 5:05 pm on June 29th, 2007.

The title of Tom Meacham’s second solo exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture at Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery is “the greater good.” It suggests both the altruistic motto of a liberal democrat and the self-convincing rhetoric of a vigilante. Meacham offers an uneasy equation of extremes through a body of work that employs grid motifs on canvas, wood sculptures of “specific object” lineage, consumer objects and mundane materials.