![]() "She's a rare bird," Salle says when I call to ask about Wittenberg. She's been featured in group shows curated by artists such as the prominent figurative painter Alex Katz and 1980s art superstar David Salle, known for his own use of sexual imagery in jumbled canvases that loot art history and contemporary life to celebrate information overload. Her subsequent rise came fast-in 2012, the American Academy of Arts and Letters gave her its best young figurative painter award, praising her "unusual imagery and freshness." The Guggenheim bought one of her architectural-interior paintings, which evoke small, spare stages, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acquired her stylized black-and-white portrait of a young woman called Ann. Nicole Wittenberg’s 'red handed, again' courtesy Nicole Wittenberg The great Alice Neel has a painting of a blue-jeaned hippie, probably because the gallery couldn't get her brilliant portrait of the fantasist Joe Gould with three penises-even I find that one funny. ![]() Grace Graupe-Pillard supplies a lovely realist portrait of a young artist staring into his cell phone. Betty Tompkins is represented by one of her blurry sex close-ups, at once romantic and clinical. Which, of course, may be the point- bada-bum! None of this makes me feel very good as a man. Cindy Sherman offers, instead of her romantic self-portraits celebrating the infinite play of female mutability, a muscle-bound plastic man-doll covered with hair. The worst is a yellow carcass by Louise Bourgeois that looks like a cross between a melting penis and, as one critic put it, a " smooshed-up kebab" on a carving post. Behind the desk, there's an image of a beach hunk in a smiley-face T-shirt, followed by a Diane Arbus photograph of a "male primitive" with tattoos all over his face. ![]() The punch line is taking in a show called The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men (at the Cheim & Read gallery in New York City) and finding yourself confronted by mirror images of the reductive crap men have been throwing at women for centuries. Please consider it NSFW.Ī dude walks into a feminist art show- bada-bum.
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