Why appropriation? Joe Fig extends his exploration of the practice into and out of the realm of novelty. Here, he delves into the experience of the landscape of an artwork—its dimensions, positions, neighbors, and responses to light and to us, its inhabitants.
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On the morning of his exhibition opening, artist Joe Fig told me that “Seeing is like a superpower.” Fig and I sat in the middle of the light and airy main gallery space and discussed his many paintings. His works depict a diverse range of attendees studying popular artworks displayed in different g
The Dayton Art Institute’s Veterans Community Day on Friday, November 11, honors all military veterans by welcoming the entire community to enjoy free admission.
Pollock 1950 # 1, 2002. Courtesy the artist.
Artist Joe Fig was just looking to unwind with his wife by tuning into Netflix last weekend when he got a shock.
They settled into
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, an engaging documentary (
Variety calls it “lively and fascinating”) that recounts the scandal of a century. New York’s Knoedler & Co. gallery had survived a Civil War and two World Wars over more than a century and a half, until an unassuming Long Island woman, Glafira Rosales, started showing up with paintings supposedly by Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko with no paperwork and a mysterious (and changing) backstory, available for way less than market rates.