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...recent work has tended to the “electronic,” making visible the inorganic topology of networks and “information matter.” In some ways, the interweaving lines of the work may begin to indicate his confrontation of the legacy of Jackson Pollock. However, Winters’ webs, supposedly representative of an boundless and dynamic “space,” do not lend themselves well to the finite space of the prints. They feel constrained and cluttered, lacking the delicate elegance of his earlier prints. Although the subject matter has three...
...passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre since Susan Sontag met Godzilla. He is suspicious of art that claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior." He tells the story of a friend who painted a mock Pollock at his surfer bar to clue...
...infuses a kind of meta-realism into his work, using the actual process as a means of bringing the outside world into abstraction. His photograms—prints created sans negative, by placing objects directly on photosensitive material—resemble a cross between the line and drips of Pollock and the intertwining strands of a DNA molecule. In his photogram from the series “Details of Love” (1992), childlike and uneven multi-colored (but predominantly black) squiggles dance around the browned surface, pulling and leaping and creating a tangled web. The lines, as it turns...
...Venice under the auspices of Mayor Riccardo Selvatico. For the first ten years art was exhibited in a single building, while now there are 30-odd pavilions and numerous off-site exhibition spaces. Since the beginning, the Biennale has championed new, up-and-coming artists—Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko were introduced to the European Art World at a Biennale in the 1940s—while acknowledging accomplished artists with the coveted Leone d’Oro award for lifetime achievement. While visual art remains the central focus of the exhibition, dance, poetry, music and performance art have...
...that are a blend of literary references (it's no coincidence one of the main characters in The Crying of Lot 49 is a radio DJ), just as visual artists like Lee Krasner have created collages of bits of older paintings (she even used pieces of her husband Jackson Pollock's canvases), Craze's work is simultaneously an assault on tradition and a tribute to what's gone before. His listeners get the future and the past in stereo: the nostalgia of old songs and the excitement of hearing that music torn down and rebuilt for new generations. How many...