THE NEW YORK TIMES
SUNDAY, 0CTOBER 24, 1999

Communicating Through Photographs
By D. Dominick Lombardi

The current exhibition at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, "Manipulation: Contemporary Photographs", features the work of five female artists who help define some of today's most compelling trends in photography.

Tenesh Webbers photographs are less readable although equally conceptual. Working with as many as eight or nine black and white negatives to create an image, Ms Webber makes a shaky looking Rayogram, which in a strange way reminded me of the concerns of cubism, whereby someone or something was visually analyzed from many different angles simultaneously. "Maze I" (1998) is the least confusing of the three, because it is clearly the image of a circular maze. Her other two works, "Song" (1997) and Departure (1998), are more ambiguous, giving the viewer less information. Her work also incorporates time, making her art-making process seem fleeting and focused.

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