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Marital Bliss for Artists

By Jessica Dawson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 30, 2006; Page C02

Nicholas and Sheila Pye don't need marriage counseling, they need U.N. peacekeepers. The artmaking couple star in videos and large-scale color pictures based, we assume, on their real-life union. The result resembles two attractive people playing a pumped-up version of "house." Their macabre battles are fought with things such as jump-ropes, milk and burning fuses. Both videos -- "A Life of Errors" and "The Paper Wall" -- render matrimony against type: For them, it's adolescent and, surprisingly, hot.

Nicholas & Sheila Pye at Curator's Office, 1515 14th St. NW, Wednesday-Saturday noon-6 p.m., 202-387-1008, to Oct. 28