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Icon by definition 1. the subject of a devotional painting. In the Byzantine period this might be Christ or the Virgin. Icon by definition 2. is a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.
Icon brings together new paintings by Los Angeles–based artist Maggie Friedman and painting and sculpture by Tāmaki–based Ammon Ngakuru. Images of Jeff Koons, Kati Heck, Roy Lichtenstein, and many others appear in Friedman’s paintings, while Ngakuru’s work has contained references to Marcel Duchamp, Richard Serra, Pierre Huyghe, and Koons again. Icon enquires about how sentiment and fandom influences each artist’s selection of material, how these decisions provoke questions of value, specifically how and why it is bestowed, and how these choices contribute to the construction of an artistic identity.
Friedman has been painting paintings of other paintings since...More
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Icon by definition 1. the subject of a devotional painting. In the Byzantine period this might be Christ or the Virgin. Icon by definition 2. is a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.
Icon brings together new paintings by Los Angeles–based artist Maggie Friedman and painting and sculpture by Tāmaki–based Ammon Ngakuru. Images of Jeff Koons, Kati Heck, Roy Lichtenstein, and many others appear in Friedman’s paintings, while Ngakuru’s work has contained references to Marcel Duchamp, Richard Serra, Pierre Huyghe, and Koons again. Icon enquires about how sentiment and fandom influences each artist’s selection of material, how these decisions provoke questions of value, specifically how and why it is bestowed, and how these choices contribute to the construction of an artistic identity.
Friedman has been painting paintings of other paintings since...More
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