Purvis Young at James Fuentes

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While the ultra-wealthy trade the scatalogic nappies of adult-child-brutes whose own naive styles self-declare their idiocy as avant and thus valuable as coins amongst collectors, Young's would seem more "authentic," a reclaimed vintage and patinated with all the struggle to be taken seriously most of his career, and all the worrisome that we wait for the outsider to prove value through wear beat into their objects, while sterling dudes are acclaimed in architecture magazines for the sheer size of their ruby studios; the point not to make fun of them but that for one group the valor is in silver for but another it's in hardship now reclaimed by collectors of such.


See too: NADA Miami 2018

AR: Lonnie Holley at James Fuentes

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Originally Posted: May 31st, 2017

Note: This entry is part of August Review, our annual look back at this season’s key exhibitions. For more information, see the announcement here.

Lonnie Holley at James Fuentes

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The prevalence of shopping mall semiotics, imagastic diaspora and attendant fracture, the crippling ambivalence of things just next to each other when they have no reason to be, the psychotic level of things touching in culture, diamond ads next to Syrian bodies, perhaps reason for our assemblage catharsis, mending our fragmentation by manufacturing it.


See too: Lonnie Holley at Atlanta Contemporary