Weekend: Mary Lucier

The most distinguished individual new work of now showing in town may well be the 21- minute 7- screen video instalation called "Wilderness," by Mary Luxier, at the Greenberg, Wilson Gallery. In effect it is a meditation on American landscape - to be precise. the Northeast seaboard from the mouth of the Hudoson northward to Newfoundland. We see it more or less as it was when the Hudson River School and the Luminists worked it over, 100 and more years ago, and we also see it as it is now. Ms Lucier doesn't preach, doesn't deal in flashy contrasts, and leaves us to draw our own concliusions. She suggests, at most, that one kind of hugeness has yielded, in part, to another kind of hugeness.