This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display
run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting
executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the
technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.