https://artcritical.com/2012/04/28/jacqueline-humphries/ Sun, 13 May 2012 05:07:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://artcritical.com/2012/04/28/jacqueline-humphries/#comment-18384 Sun, 13 May 2012 05:07:09 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=24549#comment-18384 I like this review.
It’s refreshing to hear someone liberate abstraction in this way. I’ve always found it hard to believe that in 2012, people still have to have this reaction to abstraction, simply because it’s abstraction – as if its an unwanted child, or an embarrassing drunk uncle – as opposed to just looking at how adept an individual artist might be at what they do, within their own visual language, regardless of medium. If Brice Marden & Robert Ryman were the last possible abstract painters in the 80’s, what was Ad Reinhardt doing in the 60’s when he was making the last paintings anyone can make? My belief is that this type of fatalist talk is what is misguided and anachronistic, not any one specific medium. It’s the mind that moves the pen that’s important, not the type of ink that’s being used. I’ll barrel on to point out that installations are not a new form of art invented in New York galleries during the 60’s, but that humans have actually been creating multimedia, site specific forms of expressions since the beginning of civilization. And even if this form of expression was created in the 60’s, that would still make it over 50 years old, just slightly younger than its older sibling, Ab Ex.
Anyway, thats my rant.
Great review!

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