Stan Ridgway: Drawing Mosquitos With An Eye For Detail
Dave Zimmer, BAM, 20 October 1989
STAN RIDGWAY is a great painter of life. Rather than oil or water colors, however, his medium has always been the English language. He creates vivid word pictures filled with fascinating characters and bits of philosophy that are strewn across sometimes haunting, sometimes whimsical instrumental landscapes.
Total word count of piece: 1374
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