Review of Mikhael Banut’s Rooted in the Bay Area (East Bay Express)
CRITIC’S CHOICE Rooted (in the Bay Area) The Cubists and Futurists believed the automobile had accelerated human consciousness; that was nothing compared to what TV, the computer, and e-progeny like the iPod have wrought. The paintings of Mikhael Banut at the Compound Gallery comment on and reflect our contemporary free-floating, fractured consciousness while seeking some …