In the vein of radical revision, Betty Tompkins overpaints a reproduction of Susanna and the Elders (1610) by Artemisia Gentileschi, with text from a published account of a woman’s experience of sexual assault, thus layering contemporary feminist ire onto an already gendered Old Master image. Painting is Painting’s Favorite Food reveals a range of strategies deployed by artists metabolizing the past in their work. The show includes works by Derrick Adams, Glenn Brown ,Scott Covert, John Currin, Jesse Edwards, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Rachel Feinstein, Luis Flores, Doreen Garner, Clarity Haynes, Lyle Ashton Harris, Andrew LaMar Hopkins, Jane Kaplowitz, Karen Kilimnik, Dennis Kardon, Chris Oh, Borna Sammak, Peter Saul, Sally Saul, Betty Tompkins, Piotr Uklański, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Gingeras, this exhibition riffs on Jorn’s cheeky turn of phrase to explore the various ways artists deploy art history as their central muse. Jorn’s quip serves as both inspiration and exposition for Painting is Painting’s Favorite Food: Art History as Muse, the debut presentation at South Etna Montauk, opening Jin the Village of Montauk on the East End of Long Island. And in speaking about the voracious cultural consumption required of the creative act, he declared, “Painting is painting’s favorite food,” encapsulating the vital role that art history plays in most artists’ practice. Guggenheim, refusing the Guggenheim Prize with a single sentence: “Go to hell with your money, Bastard!” Jorn titled one of his most famous modifications-his term for painting on top of anonymous thrift store canvases- The Avant Garde Won’t Give Up. He famously sent a mordant telegram to Harry F. (Montauk, NY) – Asger Jorn, the great Danish artist and mastermind of the CoBrA movement, always had a zinger up his sleeve. Opening: Thursday, July 16th, 4:00 - 6:00 pm Painting Is Painting's Favorite Food: Art History as Muse
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