Click the image to the left and you will find yourself somewhere in the Marie Lorenz realm.  It may be easier to understand this realm if you see some of her more “traditional” art, and especially the evolution of that art, at her own website first.

If you happen to be in New York City, you have an advantage: you can experience this realm firsthand. If not, maybe a description of some of her other recent art will give a small portion of perspective to the Tide and Current Taxi:

Recently I have been making collographs of things that I find on the beach. This project is an attempt to find out the story that an object tells about itself. I think of it as another way to collaborate with the tide – because of how the harbor collects things from the city, and distributes them around the shore according to their density, buoyancy, and shape.

The cliche about there being no accounting for taste is one of those built on a solid foundation of evidence.  Our highlighting one artist or another is not a pretension of either taste or aesthetic mandarinism: it is just what we come across that seems related to what we do.  And most of what we come across is actually a function of the less trafficked venues that we prefer to traffic.  For a more educated approach to thinking about art, its significance (or lack thereof) you could do worse than a quick read of this review of a current “blockbuster” art show.  The spiciness of the writing is an art form unto itself.