The video installation artist Denise Marika’s gorgeous new piece “Effaced 1,’’ at Howard Yezerski Gallery, is hypnotic yet jarring. Marika repeats gestures, which makes them ritualistic and opens them to deeper meaning. There’s a suggestion of violence and frantic loss underlying certain passages in the nearly 20-minute work, yet the ritualistic quality and the sheer beauty transform wha…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:33PM on January 18, 2011