....Pallas's unique and joyous
machines partake of both science's
intricate technological precision and nature's delicate structuring....
Whatever their genesis, Pallas's works remain dynamic living systems.
As
such they can present clues to help us grasp the exquisite beauty
inherent
in our lives within this shifting, flowing world.
Diane
Kirkpatrick PhD, Catalog of Detroit Institute of Arts.
....Pallas — an anti-art punk who "bought out of the
American Dream" and an electronic art pioneer given props in Fran
Popper's seminal Art of the Electronic Age...
Rebecca Mazzei.
Metrotimes Detroit.
...a body of work that
is innovative and interesting, particularly in
the way the sculptures respond 'physically' to the presence of the
onlooker.
Hedy O'Beil. Arts Magazine, NYC.
Jim Pallas is a Detroit original with the tinkering genius of Henry
Ford I combined with the ironic wit of Marcel Duchamp.
Joy
Colby. Detroit News.
energy
is what his work is about, both technically and
spiritually...and...good
old wholesome Zen Lunacy, the important ingredient in Pallas'
make-up....
Tom Bloomer,
Detroit Artists Monthly
The
humor which Pallas brings to his work allows him to express clearly his
declared concern with kinetic interaction between viewer and sculpture
without descending to pedantry.
Madeline Burnside -
Art News
Absurd. Eccentric. Wacky. Absolutely. But that very eccentricity gives
vent to some of our most prophetic creations. It's not Pallas' way of
being trendy, or
nurturing the arty-nut in us butrather his commitment to
anti-patness, to the exceptions in any system and the spirit of satire
and play that is often their precipitator.
Marsha Miro. Detroit Free Press.
...amazing
imaginative scope, funny. irreverent. entertaining.
Sue Taylor. Dialogue, Chicago.
...uses humor, inventiveness and
poignancy to make his
point about the environment, health, sentimentality and the
contemporary world.
You come away from this show satisfied on many levels and smiling at
Pallas' inventiveness.
Keri Guten
Cohen - Detroit Free Press
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