"Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity".FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART How is this abstract painter different from all other abstract painters? In a show of twenty-one canvases from the '90s, curator David Moos David Moos is the the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Moos received a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and is a contributing editor to Art Papers and Art US. of the Birmingham Museum of Art Coordinates: The Birmingham Museum of Art is an important regional public art museum, located at 2000 Eighth Ave. North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. argues that Jonathan Lasker Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) in Jersey City,New Jersey. Lasker is an American artist who attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Lasker lives and works in New York City, New York. separates himself from the likes of, say, Mary Heilmann and Davids Row and Reed by virtue of his extreme "self-consciousness." Lasker premeditates his large-scale oils using small studies, a tactic that Moos believes pushes the artist toward Peter Halley's camp. Theoretical apparatus aside, the real test comes, as always, when one stands in a room full of the paintings. Sept. 10-Nov. 6, 1999; Power Plant, Toronto, Dec. 10, 1999-Feb. 27, 2000; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Brandeis University, at Waltham, Mass.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1948. Although Brandeis was founded by members of the American Jewish community, the university operates as an independent, nonsectarian institution. , Mar. 30-May 28, 2000; Birmingham Museum of Art, June 25-Sept. 3, 2000. |
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