the animated tranquility of dennis beach


by David P. Kozinski

Walk slowly past or around a Dennis Beach sculpture and you might feel both stimulated and relaxed. As the eye moves across the segments of “Twist #24,” mounted along an approximately 24-foot length of wall, the repetition and variation of color and shape are exciting and calming. There is just enough repetition to provide a kind of visual vocabulary and plenty of variation to surprise and even jolt the viewer a bit. . . .