Designing Women.

ART exhibitions; GOLDSLEGER, Cheryl; ARTISTS; 21ST century art; ART museums; ARCHITECTURE

ATLANTA (Ga.); GEORGIAReport Available; UNITED StatesReport Available

Artist Cheryl Goldsleger's recent exhibition at Atlanta, Georgia-based Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia was titled "Utopia." Though the name refers to the ideal communities projected by some of the women architects whom she celebrates, it might be an appropriate title for Goldsleger's own work. As is well known, the word derives from the Greek for "no place," and Goldsleger's drawings and paintings have always depicted sites or spaces that are at once logically compelling and physically impossible. Two decades ago, she first won recognition for renderings of vertiginous architecture, structures overlaid with diagrammatic crisscrossing lines that seem intended to clarify relationships among parts but, paradoxically, serve to complicate and obscure them.