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Mar 18, 2008
Ted Kliman @ Art Whino
At Art Whino’s Indulge event on Saturday evening, Ted Kliman’s life-sized paintings filled the gallery’s largest room with a haunted feeling. The artist paints not from life, but from mannequins — posing figures draped with plain cloth, and adorning the flowing shapes with tassels and Hebrew writing. Many of the paintings, such as Bondage I and II, portray anguish and torture — the figures hang by cuffed hands, heads down, with folds of cloth subtly…