Presss: Travis Somerville in Artillery

"Rapid Fire Reviews: Travis Somerville at Charlie James Gallery"
By James Scarborough
Artillery
Volume 4 Issue 5
May/June 2010

"'A Portion Of That Field…' could be one of two things: a painful reminder that an Obama presidency represents but a small step in the Sisyphean integration of race or else a glorious prism through which to view art's cannibalistic and self-reflexive tendency to devour and reconfigure popular culture. Though the show's walkaway impression is one of postponed "I have a dream" hope, it's obvious that the humorous sophistication of Somerville's compositions and the historical breadth and depth of his scope that the latter's the case."