30 Artists To Watch in 2012: Part II
NY Arts
We love sequels. I mean - Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom or Street Fighter II for Super NES - you straight up can’t touch that shit. Alas, we digress, but our second installment of 30 Artists To Watch is more rad than those two put together. Sonic boom, are the two words used to describe Matt Jones paintings and Guile’s signature move. For Jones, along with other painters in this post, space is a central concern. These artists are cutting it up, refracting it, exploding it or filling it to the brim - proving that painting can exist and persist in multiple modes without canceling one another out. Other artists in this installment are turning body politics upside down in funny, bizarre and disturbing ways. For more on that see R. Scott Whipkey and Narcisster. Check back soon for our last installment. It’s gon’ be off da chain.