This publication accompanies an exhibition focusing on the new uses of abstraction among a generation of artists who reject the heroic, personal and angst-driven work of the 1950s. Instead, they favor oeuvres that make use of irony, parody and new technologies. Included in the exhibition are 21 artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Kevin Appel, Uta Barth, Glenn Brown, Ingrid Calame, Fandra Chang, Mark D. Cole, Sally Elesby, Jeff Elrod, Tad Griffin, Jim Hodges, Callum Innes, Emil Lucas, Fabian Marcaccio, Beatriz Milhazes, Takashi Murakami, Aaron Parazette, Richard Patterson, Monique Prieto, Scott Richter, and Pae White. Includes essays by Dana Friis-Hansen, David Pagel, Raphael Rubenstein and Peter Schjeldahl; and documentation on the artists’ careers.
