Matthew Marks Gallery
522 W 22nd St
212.243.0200
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Jasper Johns, Untitled, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
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Feb 1, 2008 – Apr 12, 2008
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Note: A reception for this exhibition takes place on Friday, Feb 1 (6-8pm).
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now included in the canon of great American painters, not only alludes to his Abstract-Expressionist forerunners in the show, but to his own early paintings. A black lithograph touched up with ink depicts two American flags, echoing his famous series from the early '60s. In an untitled watercolor, Johns paints his own painting hanging on a wall. As it grows more self-enclosed, Johns' oeuvre is easier to understand: the artist is looking back on his own life, work, and place in history.
