Rad's equally colorful artist statement is larger - than - life, featuring a mythological hybrid of Ab - Ex legends, «Jackson Johns», who returns from exile in the midwest as a millennial in order to do battle
with zombie formalism, and this anecdote from AFC's very own SPRNG BRK Fundraiser:
Not exact matches
Ms. Imhof's main efforts are shiny acrylic monochromes (black, white or turquoise) on aluminum
with impulsive flurries of scratches — variants of
zombie formalism that imply vandalism.
The art world today is filled to overflowing
with bright - idea, quick - execution art — usually assemblage or collage, although some «
zombie formalism» (imagine a graffiti - covered Mark Rothko
with one stretcher bar removed) qualifies.
Friday night, Nic Rad's solo show at Victori + Mo imagines an art - historical alter ego to combat
zombie formalism with Ab - Ex passion and millennial pop references.
«Abstraction and Its Discontents» in East Williamsburg did hint at a
zombie formalism,
with subjective geometry that approaches a house style for Brooklyn.