Working primarily in video since 2000, the artist remained deeply engaged with the politics of image production and reception, using stock footage from Hollywood films, television, and advertising to point to the exhaustion built into much of
postwar cultural production.
Featuring fifty seminal works by thirty - one stalwarts, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Lee Bontecou, the show contextualizes
postwar cultural production between the Holocaust and the blithe likes of Levittown.
Grouping Beuys, Flavin, and Judd in a new exhibition from the Walker's collection provides «a snapshot of a vital moment in
postwar cultural production,» says assistant curator Yasmil Raymond, and allows viewers to trace the influence of their ideas in contemporary art.