Still strongly influenced by wrestling, family portraits, vintage Hollywood starlets and Mexican porn, some of the new pieces bring
back more abstract forms.
Not exact matches
Along the
back wall is a fivesome of the
more abstract kind of paintings Mr. Oehlen took up in 1988: soupy brown - gray blurs reminiscent of de Kooning, and embellished with sharper, brighter
forms, as if the brooding artist had suddenly cheered up in the work's final stages.
The theme of the show marries the often sacred and sensual traditional use of the human
back to represent
form with the
more abstract concept of what it means to be «
back to
back».
Party: Nicky Siano at Good Room Nicky Siano goes
back to the days when disco was still finding its
form, as upstart DJs began playing R&B records together and
abstracting them to accentuate grooves that could roll on longer and with
more directed purpose.