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Butler off Sutter

by Andrew Berardini
Luke Butler at Jessica Silverman Gallery September 11th, 2009 - October 17th, 2009
Posted 9/27/09

Oh pop art. What have you done to us? What have we done to you? We were thrilled when the popular and the common was displayed without the hokiness of regional art, but with the cool imprimatur of downtown intellectual chic. But as time passed, the simple soup can became insufficient. If mythology and history were the fodder for an elite of painters long past, then television and cinema have long taken their place. Robert Williams and his minions took pop (and surrealism, perhaps the fir... [more]