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Friday, July 29, 2016

Gretta Johnson at Mesler / Feuer

Gretta Johnson at Mesler / Feuer
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The shaped painting has been making a resurgence, there's a whole show of them across the city, but whereas historically the shaped painting invested in the painting/object tension, bulging and large, the youthful revitalizing of it have a preoccupation with its flatness acting as icon, rather than a tension of a paintng become object, an image become object.