Micchelli writes: «The thickly painted, brightly buzzing circles, rectangles and trapezoids in Analogue Future — which includes conventionally rectilinear canvases as well as several
tondos — derive from the 8 - bit graphics of primitive computer programs and video games... While the works in this
show, at first glance, come off as paint - as - paint, the longer you look at them, the more their evocation of memory and lost time deepens their impression, even if you are unaware of their origins.
In a
show full of passionately polemical paintings — Alice Neel's heroic portrait of the union organiser Pat Whalen, fists bearing down on the newspaper headlines; Mussolini as a green - faced jack - in - a-box; Guston's horrifying Guernica
tondo — Wood's lyrical ruralism still holds its own.