BCA's 21st Drawing Show

I think the drawing show has gotten out of hand. There are 2 works I was interested in at the show. Three? Maybe. I didn't see any reason to talk about the show as it was filled to the gills with stale 50 year old pseudo-abstract expressionist collage and works that function in some form of a self-referential navel gazing bubble. Then I stumbled onto a quote to describe how I felt about it.

In the last years of the boom, numerous artists came to the fore who have their aesthetic heads up the aesthetic asses of Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Cady Noland, and Christopher Wool. They make punkish black-and-white art and ad hoc arrangements of disheveled stuff, architectural fragments, and Xeroxed photos.

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Many of these artists have sold a lot of work, and most will be part of a lost generation. They thought they were playing the system; it turned out that they were themselves being played.