The big,
playful paintings in this exhibition, from Dexter Dalwood's fantasy landscape mash - ups to David Salle's postmodern explosions of thought and colour, could just as easily be painted on a wall in London or Cairo as on canvas.
Not exact matches
Portraits of families, summers on the beach, scenes of the Statue of Liberty, and dancing figures
in costume — these are some of the
playful images found
in the
exhibition Florine Stettheimer:
Painting Poetry, on view at the Jewish Museum this summer.
The mirror conversation between Ryan and Olive is perfectly represented
in the
playful construction of this project
in the diptych Please be eager / Please be patient / Please collaborate - The day that me and Daddy talked about the
exhibition in Italy and made our
paintings, Olive's Studio, Saxmundham, Sunday the 17th of May, 2015 by Olive May Gander + Please be eager / Please be patient / Please collaborate - Olive presenting me with a birthday present of a small brown cardboard box decorated with tape and drawings, containing an emergency art kit consisting of various small pens, pencils, tapes, stickers and glues, Saxmundham, Thursday the 21st of May, 2015 by Ryan Gander.
The six new
paintings in Allison Miller's compact
exhibition at Susan Inglett make a convincing case for a capacious abstraction that is exacting yet
playful, rich
in smart art references yet firmly colloquial.
In his review of the original
exhibition, the Guardian's Adrian Searle wrote: «I think it odd that anyone could be offended by Chris Ofili's rich and complex
paintings, with their gorgeous,
playful parodies of exoticism and ethnicity, their obsessive details, their wayward glamour.»