Extraordinary icons, ‘Leigh Bowery & A Bottle of 7UP’ at Fleisher Ollman Gallery
, 2022-12-22 19:38:06,
Extraordinary icons, ‘Leigh Bowery & A Bottle of 7UP’ at Fleisher Ollman Gallery
A colorful exhibition by six artists with more than 100 drawings depicts pop culture and other icons in ways that are surprising, a little bit humorous in places, and full of affection. Made by artists affiliated with the Artworks program — from a haunting drawing of Jean-Michel Basquiat to a patterned shirt drawing that our contributor Tasso Hartzog calls “very nearly hypnotic” — the pieces create common ground that delights both the viewer who sees them and the artist who made them.
Fleisher/Ollman’s current exhibition, on view until January 7, brings together six artists and more than one hundred drawings but takes its name from a single work: Leigh Bowery & A Bottle of 7UP, a vivid colored pencil and graphite drawing by Anthony Coleman that faces the entrance to the gallery. Of the six artists on view, Coleman is the biggest name—his solo show at Marvin Gardens, which opened last month, was a critics’ pick at Artforum—but there are good reasons for building this exhibition around his eponymous drawing that have nothing to do with publicity.
Leigh Bowery & A Bottle of 7UP takes the colors, ideas and visual motifs on the surrounding walls and condenses them into one image. Two angular forms, rendered in graphite and colored pencil, stand out against a yellow background in an oddly magnetic pairing. On the left is the bottle of 7UP, which is immediately recognizable for its…
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