American Standard: (Para) Normality Everyday Life: Edward Hopper, Cindy Sherman

New York Times Review below - Published on the occasion of the 2002 group exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. Organized by Gregory Crewdson. Participating artists included Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, John Currin, Tim Davis, Keith Edmier, Eric Fischl, Maureen Gallace, Robert Gober, Todd Haynes, Edward Hopper, Bill Owens, Charles Ray, Joel Shapiro, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Henry Wessel. Paperback 48 pages ISBN 978-0970342225 Here’s part of the NYT review of the exhibition: In the fictive suburban scenarios that the photographer Gregory Crewdson constructs, something weird is always breaking through the fabric of ordinary existence. For ''American Standard: (Para)Normality and Everyday Life,'' Mr. Crewdson has gathered 22 works by other artists, in each of which something uncanny lurks beneath the seemingly banal surface. In a yearbook-style portrait of a teenage girl by John Currin and a whole-figure sculpture of a girl by Keith Edmier, a fierce eroticism smolders behind the veneer of all-American girlhood. In a 1973 photograph by Bill Owens, a family unrolls grassy turf onto the dirt in front of their new home; their activity seems no less strange than does that of Richard Dreyfuss building a visionary mountain in his living room in a still from Steven Spielberg's ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'' In one of Cindy Sherman's famous film stills, a hitchhiker waits by the road for so