| Jim Pallas "Electokinetic Sculpture" Allan Stone Gallery, 48 E. 86th St., through October 28. Detroit sculptor Jim Pallas is now working with words and sounds on wheels. His current exhibit is a baker's dozen of electronics sculptures with playful titles such as "Jerry's Demon" (a tribute to Hieronymus Bosch), "The Blue Wazoo", and "Song for Luke "(derived from St. Luke, the patron saint of both physicians and artists), dedicated to the physicians and staff of the Henry Ford Hospital. Befuddled and comic, "The Blue Wazoo "is a welded steel structure covered with several coats of acrylic lacquer. The form contains plastic shapes circuitry, wires, light emitting ions, a motor, cloth, horsehair, a feather and indeed. As the Wazoo emits light and sound it radiates the aura of a savage modern fetish that has gone a bit as jerk. Zany, surrealistic, and ingenius in their construction, Mr. Pallas' work ushers us into the gaudy baroque phrase of kinetic art, as emanations of Paul Klee's Twittering Machines come back to haunt us in the language of our bizarre technology. |