Andrea K. Scott: Troy Brauntuch, at the Friedrich Petzel galleries.
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Troy Brauntuch is part of the Pictures Generation, the media-soaked crew who hit New York in the seventies and were sanctioned, this spring, with a show at the Met. Like most Pictures art, Brauntuch’s paintings—figurative wonders so dark that their subjects almost vanish in the gloaming—rely on borrowed imagery (“appropriation,” in the art-world argot). In a striking pair of shows at the Friedrich...
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