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Endgame Art? It's Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College
By Roberta Smith
In the video gallery, hats off to Matt McCormick's "Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal," an award-winning 16-minute film from 2001 that wryly documents the antigraffiti campaigns in several northwest cities (mostly Portland, Ore.). Painting over graffiti yields public abstract painting that looks peculiarly modernist and brings to mind Rothko, Motherwell and even Malevich. The video continues the art-is-everywhere ethic of the Borntstein and Ybarra works, showing how the effort to stamp out one collective, public form of expression can result in another one.
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Posted by: David Sampson at July 7, 2006 5:08 PM