Highlights include the vibrant pastel on paper,
Cakes, 1967, a monumental figurative
painting, Girl
in Striped Blouse, 1973 - 75, and a rich
oil painting, Sunglasses,1983 - 85.
In the show that first forged his artistic identity in 1991 at the influential Nicola Jacobs Gallery, Stubbs exhibited an extraordinary group of paintings each made of a stack of canvases with thick paint oozing out between them, their uppermost surfaces unambiguously decorated like a cake, with oil applied through icing funnel
In the show that first forged his artistic identity
in 1991 at the influential Nicola Jacobs Gallery, Stubbs exhibited an extraordinary group of paintings each made of a stack of canvases with thick paint oozing out between them, their uppermost surfaces unambiguously decorated like a cake, with oil applied through icing funnel
in 1991 at the influential Nicola Jacobs Gallery, Stubbs exhibited an extraordinary group of
paintings each made of a stack of canvases with thick
paint oozing out between them, their uppermost surfaces unambiguously decorated like a
cake, with
oil applied through icing funnels.
Greenberg saw the clotted and
oil -
caked surfaces as reflecting the artists» existential struggle; Rosenberg saw the finished object as only a kind of residue of the actual work of art, which he thought lay
in the «process» of the
painting's creation.