Untitled, 2008 - Josh Smith
About the Work
About Untitled
The words "Museum of Modern Art" and the name "Paul J. Sachs" seem to jump off the page amidst a jumble of loopy graphics in this Untitled painting. Clarity emerges when the words are read together, to announce the dates ...Read More
The words "Museum of Modern Art" and the name "Paul J. Sachs" seem to jump off the page amidst a jumble of loopy graphics in this Untitled painting. Clarity emerges when the words are read together, to announce the dates of an exhibition entitled Book/Shelf on the second floor of the Museum of Modern Art, in the Paul J. Sachs Prints and Book Gallery. Book/Shelf, in which Smith exhibited a wooden bookshelf filled with bound books, examined the ways that artists reappropriate the object of a book, bound and printed for mass-production, into unique art objects, questioning the relationship between the printing process as it relates to both book publishing and the fine arts.
Untitled is one of Smith's announcement paintings, in which he silkscreens his own name and the name and date of art venues where he has previously exhibited, using the text and his anti-art aesthetic to examine the commercialism of the art market and to challenge the rules of artistic convention. Composed using a traditional printmaking technique, yet marked by the artist's hand, the paintings explore, and poke fun at, the issues of authenticity and facsimile that so preoccupy the art world elite.Read Less
Untitled is one of Smith's announcement paintings, in which he silkscreens his own name and the name and date of art venues where he has previously exhibited, using the text and his anti-art aesthetic to examine the commercialism of the art market and to challenge the rules of artistic convention. Composed using a traditional printmaking technique, yet marked by the artist's hand, the paintings explore, and poke fun at, the issues of authenticity and facsimile that so preoccupy the art world elite.Read Less
About the Artist
About Josh Smith
Josh Smith is an artist whose practice is central to his generation's discourse on painting. Driven by early training in printmaking, Smith challenges the ...Read More
Josh Smith is an artist whose practice is central to his generation's discourse on painting. Driven by early training in printmaking, Smith challenges the romantic mythology of the artist by creating mixed-media compositions that combine the handmade with manufactured and found objects to examine the value of originality versus facsimile. "Painting is like talking for me," Smith says. "It is how I communicate."
What his paintings often communicate is immediacy, speaking directly to the viewer and forcing interaction. His paintings forgo formal representation and traditional technique in order to explore abstraction and composition. Though he has built a "bad boy" reputation among indie film and fashion types with his seemingly messy looking paintings, collages, book projects, and sculpture, his work is also seen as intensely emotional and sophisticated in the art world and has attracted important collectors and museums.Read Less
What his paintings often communicate is immediacy, speaking directly to the viewer and forcing interaction. His paintings forgo formal representation and traditional technique in order to explore abstraction and composition. Though he has built a "bad boy" reputation among indie film and fashion types with his seemingly messy looking paintings, collages, book projects, and sculpture, his work is also seen as intensely emotional and sophisticated in the art world and has attracted important collectors and museums.Read Less
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