Both Braman and Overton's works play with raw materials and optical japery, but without seeming gimmicky. (artfcity.com)
Alliston's artist book seems to satirise the anodyne neutrality affected by exhibition catalogues, a bit of japery all the more apropos when the viewer considers that Mellon's assets were dispersed over the course of four separate auctions at Sotheby's. (berlinartlink.com)
Besides the tension created between these representational settings, backgrounds, and objects by their abrupt interface with the abstract bodies — the collaged corpuses of the nudes — they also convey a playful and bizarre visual japery, a kind of Dadaesque tomfoolery. (brooklynrail.org)