Studio as subject
The Boston Globe - August 9, 2002
By Cate McQuaid
... On the contemporary side, Hank Virgona's still lifes do come from his workplace. Virgona wokrs small, studying the way forms fold into and change one another. He started "Studio: Still Life With Milk Carton, Fruit and Matchbox" by incising the forms in a wood panel, then painting over and within them. The gouged lines glow with pale color. The lines of the table, carton, and box, with pears pointing this way and that, give the angular composition the sense that it's spinning.