Not exact matches
Rad's equally colorful artist statement is larger - than - life, featuring a mythological hybrid of Ab - Ex legends, «Jackson Johns», who returns from exile in the midwest
as a millennial in order to do battle with
zombie formalism, and this anecdote from AFC's very own SPRNG BRK Fundraiser:
But this has inevitably invited more caustic labels such
as «slacker abstraction» or «
zombie formalism».
Recent terms such
as «
zombie formalism» (aka
zombie abstraction) appear to confirm that we are living in an age of post-historical malaise.
Dubbed «slacker abstraction», «provisional painting», «neo-
formalism», «casualism» and «
zombie formalism» (
as coined by artist and critic Walter Robinson), many of the works in question share an affinity for flatness, process - based approaches, improvised gestures and, at times, a playful sense of humour.
Can it be written off
as «
zombie formalism» or are innovative approaches to abstraction really being developed?