Monday, October 6, 2014

Heather Guertin at Brennan & Griffin 

Heather Guertin at Brennan & Griffin

Lightly, post-1919 Alexei Jawlensky heads rise like a video artifacts to the surface of Today’s painting, reworking the artifacts of its scanned history, a ghost encountered, like flies to the surface of soup, parodizing searched authenticity - according to the PR. No one is a painter today but instead a “an artist who engages with painting.” Dreadfully unrefined to actually be a painter. Don't touch the stuff. “Appropriating historical imagery" soon to be required in every didactic as the vessels fill with yesteryears refuse, with flies. A lightness to ensure that everything looks like paint, and not painting. A structure of faces to give reason to paint, to make it seem reasonable, excuse the brushstrokes, they're aren't mine, I saw a ghost of myself returning to modernism to begin again. These paintings are nice.