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.