Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Ashley Bickerton "Nocturnes" at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Go see what his self-imposed exile to Bali has done for Ashley Bickerton's art. Still working with relationships between men and women in the "me-love-you-long-time" vein, the pieces here are even more polished than in the past, with the appropriation of brand imagery to include his own name, in various fonts and styles, and his signature, as part of the detailing on the frames of the work. Other scratchings on frames and rough treatments suggest a primitivism that is hardly diluted, but rather reinforced, by the high-tech approach and digital imagery, garishly colorful and "alienish" at times, in the work. Gauguin gone mad in the 21st Century?
Until June 25.
Ashley Bickerton
Red Scooter Nocturne, 2010-2011
acrylic, digital print and plastic laminate on wood
65.5 x 76.75 x 5 inches
166.4 x 194.9 x 12.7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Ashley Bickerton
TITNW 7, 2010-2011
acrylic, digital print and plastic laminate on wood
57 x 96 x 5 inches
144.8 x 243.8 x 12.7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

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