Poetry. Art. Poems by Steve Kowit. Drawings and Watercolors by Lenny Silverberg. Although humor can be a switchblade of critical deconstruction and these guys can swing it with the best of them, right here, right now, they're going for soul. Cutting deeper. So get ready. They render a double dose, slicing to the bone with achingly fine-tuned artistry. Kowit and Silverberg have each honed their characteristic styles down to a focused, reductive form--accomplished contrarianly (as is their wont) by addition. Kowit plus Silverberg equals way more than two. Yet together, they reduce abstract social, political and economic issues to something more basic: representational humanity.

About the author: Lenny Silverberg and Steve Kowit met in 1960 when they were students at Brooklyn College where Lenny was studying in the Art Department with the painters Ad Reinhardt, Burgoyne Diller and Robert Henry, and Steve was studying linguistic philosophy with John Hospers and Martin Lean. They both contributed to the Brooklyn College Art and Literature Magazine, Landscapes, of which Lenny was Art editor in 1961-62.