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♢ EDITORIAL by Sal McIntyre, New York ♢

For artist Bruce Nauman, known primarily for neon, video and installation work, a transient upbringing amidst his father’s engineering work for General Electric, and undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics, served to inspire art by way of fabrication and concept, and not the other way around— the idea that art should be expressive seems to be a blissful side effect in his raw, honest and beautifully distilled communications, which are powerful enough to shift a viewer’s complete orientation at mere first glance.

By the time he went to grad …