Artists

Looking at the artists, I agree with Paul and Adrianna that they are really interesting and striking. Their subject matter is so well-fitted to their chosen media.

The early work by Joy Garnett in the Buster-Jangle series of expressively painted mushroom clouds reminds me of some of Spero's work that Nixon described in the lecture last week. Spero did a "War Series" of paintings that are these very rough, sketchy gouache pieces. Similar subject matter and similar energy, yet such different effects!
Garnett,
Spero (or here)

Until I saw John Fekner's graffiti I hadn't thought of "decay" as "DK" ... and the initials reminded me of the clean, informative, starkly-white pages of Dorling Kindersley "DK" books that I read growing up. I'm considering the juxtaposition for a possible project avenue. (The opening image on Fekner's page -- the collaboration with the City Squad -- reminds me of the Space Invaders.)



















Here's some lovely prints by Mark Tobey. (I'm not sure if it's the same guy as the post listed, but they're pretty cool for natural textures.) An article from the NYT described some of his work in his exhibition as: "This show of nearly 40 works on paper and, occasionally, canvas is his largest New York exhibition in nearly 20 years, and it includes both little-known early work, examples of the mature "white letter" paintings, and the small, meticulously wrought, often shimmering cascades of different marks and densities that followed."





ADDITIONALLY,
I found books on Spero, Tobey, and Crumb at the library.
I couldn't find any books about Glenn Brown. There was one blog that described an exhibition of his. Apparently he makes vaguely rococo-like women in grand "impasto" brush-strokes and a highly "painted" surface ... however the actual paintings are flat and glossy like a reproduction, NOT impasto textured! I'm not exactly sure how he fits into "decay" other than the imagery looks sort of melty and it's sort of a commentary on the decay of culture to commercialism.