LOS ANGELES
Allison Miller
ACME
As the recent "Soci�t� Anonyme" exhibition at UCLA's Hammer Museum helpfully reminded us, painterly pluralism is nothing new. But tor all its diversity, avant-garde modernism was largely predicated on imperatives, on overturning old paradigms for something more visionary-whether futurism or Fauvism, Surrealism or geometric abstraction. I must admit I often get a little perplexed about what the imperatives might be for contemporary painting, beyond the laws of supply and demand, and the speculative whims of fashion.
But while I wait for an imperative to emerge, I'm willing to settle for some simple painterly intelligence that …
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