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Schwartz und Weiss

by Andy Ritchie
Seamus Conley at Andrea Schwartz Gallery April 1st, 2009 - May 15th, 2009
Posted 4/14/09

I didn't clutch this week's common theme of painting-without-painting until days after I'd left Seamus Conley's Flash/Dissolve. The pitch had already been set by Michael David's daffily deft paint wiping techniques (reviewed below), a kind of scratchboard-in-paint. Conversely, Conley's work is all positive marks...without the marks. His paintings and drawings are essentially transmogrified digital prints. His technique, call it Photoshoprealism. To see his scenes as photographic prints requ... [more]