Openings: Jasper Johns @ Matthew Marks
Posted by Khoi, June 9, 2011
When the subject of “best living artist in the world” comes up, the one artist always on everyone’s list is Jasper Johns. And with good reason. The eighty-one year old legend is one of the most influential figures in art, almost single-handedly moving it away from Abstract Expressionism and laying the foundation for Pop and Minimalism. His Flag paintings are as visible a part of American culture as the hot rod or baseball. One of Johns’ best known series is his numbers works. Using the […]
