Mel Gooding is very thorough and very enlightening on all this background information; it helps to establish the fact that Hoyland's painting was not the product of any one
single exposure to the art of others, but rather a synthesis of many different exposures.
We talked about Kuo's early
exposure to Fort Thunder as a student at RISD, how wild and elegant color is, My Chemical Romance making good on their promises as a band, the lineage of emo, the best time of day
to paint, getting into self - publishing, the new Obama portrait, anxiety and jokes, literally biting your tongue, how Peter Halley has made the same painting for decades and why that's the one of the most audacious radical painting moves out there, Kuo's band HEX MESSAGE, why Bart Simpson is still on every
single thing in the zine tent at the New York
Art Book Fair, Jeremy Lin and bootleg merch beef, Kuo's two - person exhibition «It Gets Beta» with Scott Reeder in 2015, avoiding knuckleheads so you can enjoy watching sports, being the last generation who for some reason is still afraid of selling out, his own roundball podcast Cookies, and embracing the simulation.
Whether his works utilize a
single negative, multiple
exposures, collage, or a construction that is photographed, Josephson creates
art that challenges our perceptions and invites us
to consider different perspectives.