PRESS ABOUT RICK
"Rick Liss, whose acrylics on the backs of street signs — with mirrors on the wall showing the signs’ messages — [Ned Smyth] admired as examples of “more formalist, contemporary art.” Read more...
Rick Liss was featured at, " 'Come Together: Surviving Sandy,' a sprawling, encompassing, inspiring exhibition of works by some 300 artists in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is about this interconnectedness." Read more...
"...a new and productive chapter in [Rick Liss's] career as a visual artist." Read more...
PRESS ABOUT RICK'S 'NO YORK CITY"
"Rick Liss' past-paced, trippy short film "No York City" is an erratic witness to New York in 1980." "...a great look at a city half-gone."
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"Call it the anti-"Koyaanisqatsi": Rick Liss' 6-minute experimental short film "N.Y.C. (No York City)" shoots through Manhattan with the speed and motion of those "Naked Gun" movie openings. The transitions are seamless..."
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"Here’s a great time-lapse video of a much seedier New York City shot back in 1983. Set to the sounds of Laurie Anderson’s “For Electronic Dogs,” it’s a wonderful portrait of what NYC was like in the early-80s."
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"In just under six minutes, you can take a (mostly) stop-motion trip to 1983 New York City in this short film called "N.Y.C. (No York City)" by Rick Liss with music by Laurie Anderson. The video follows a dizzying path through Manhattan…"
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"A time-lapse tour of 1983 Manhattan when it was brown and grey and scary and there was still a Forty-Deuce where you could see triple-feature dirty movies and pick up a hustler, etc. And, yeah, it was a hotbed of creativity."
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"...a wonderful six minute film that combines fast motion images of the sights and people of 1980′s New York with humorous sound dubbing and a driving electronic score by Laurie Anderson. Think of it as a time capsule without all the dust."
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"...the short clip is a visually stuttering, yet no less stunning account of early 1980s Gotham. A 'creatively fertile' time in city history."
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