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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Richard Phillip’s “Untitled (Smiley)” (2000) evokes billboard and pop art. This adolescent ingenue looks down on the viewer with an insouciant sneer that recalls a mix between a 1960s beach babe pin-up and a Rosenquist parody of American pop culture. The blaring yellow happy face placed like an enormous sticker over her nipple confronts the viewer with its insistent smile...

Author: By Sarah R. Lehrer-graiwer and Natalia H.J. Naish, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Go Figure: Contemporary Art's Dilemma | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

...canvas plane once guarded against outside referentiality has been invaded by metaphor, narrative, and gleeful appropriation of historical styles,” Kertess writes in the show’s description. And so Kertess uses the paintings of Carroll Dunham, Sue Williams, Laura Owens and James Rosenquist, the photographs of Aaron Siskin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Adam Fuss, to demonstrate this point. In each piece of the show the influence of daily life and the outside world is visible, sometimes by means of a decontextualized reference to an everyday object and other times through shapes with figurative overtones...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some Options In Abstraction | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

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