Image: Lois Dodd, "Sunset"
This article, which is sorta like an extended complaint, is pretty good. It's nice to see someone like Roberta Smith campaigning for a bit of change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/arts/design/14curators.html
Also Dan, Lois Dodd looks like a painter you'd like. Maybe you already do.
3 comments:
I think the article very thought provoking but perhaps too hasty in its execution. For my opinion bd examples of who versus who. Chris ofili and Joe Zucker are not better tickets than MArlene Dumas. She is way more dynamic than either of those guys. Zucker is like Pierre Bonnard with a more diverse interest and chris ofili is definitely of the times but is not taking anything in a new direction-I would say he feeds off what is now. Dumas doesn't seem to care what is now. . .THAT is the artist I want to see-maybe it fits maybe it doesn't (into the artworld) but it feels like the artist knows where she is going.
I also just looked up Lois Dodd and he is fuckin cool. Thanks for the knowledge!
I'm not real into Marlene Dumas, but I understand what you're saying about the artist not feeding off of what is "now." The thing is, she is mentioning Zucker and Ofili because they aren't better tickets than Dumas. I don't know if she is trying to say that it being a "ticket" shouldn't matter, or if she is just decrying that it does. But her idea seems to be that Dumas is similar to things that are shown a lot, and that something different wouldn't hurt.
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