Going
Forward in Reverse: The Present Tense(ion) of History Painting (Banisadr, Howe,
Dalwood, Steir, Taaffe, Quayola, Wang)
By G. Roger Denson
In the last decade, the painters Ali Banisadr, Dexter Dalwood, Catherine Howe, Pat Steir, Phillip Taaffe, and Suling Wang, along with one exceptional digital animator from London named simply Quayola, have produced remarkably strong painting as a result ot their immersions in the history of painting and other cultural forms. Whether the artist is painting a still life (Catherine Howe), a battle scene (Ali Banisadr), a landscape (Suling Wang), a hybrid of popular and art history (Dexter Dalwood), or digitally programming chance algorithms in the production of video paintings (Quayola), each of these painters is redefining the meaning of History Painting with a specific ideological intent… (read more)
By G. Roger Denson
In the last decade, the painters Ali Banisadr, Dexter Dalwood, Catherine Howe, Pat Steir, Phillip Taaffe, and Suling Wang, along with one exceptional digital animator from London named simply Quayola, have produced remarkably strong painting as a result ot their immersions in the history of painting and other cultural forms. Whether the artist is painting a still life (Catherine Howe), a battle scene (Ali Banisadr), a landscape (Suling Wang), a hybrid of popular and art history (Dexter Dalwood), or digitally programming chance algorithms in the production of video paintings (Quayola), each of these painters is redefining the meaning of History Painting with a specific ideological intent… (read more)
