WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson



The year 2010 began bracingly cold in New York City, so it was a comfort to visit Envoy Enterprises at 131 Chrystie Street, filled with 16-inch-square color portraits of people in a steamy-warm place -- the bathroom, after a shower -- by Martinique-born Thomas Dozol. Typically eroticized and antiseptic, the bathroom for Dozel is a pensive place, which is a real howler (viz. the various parodies of Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker).

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