Article: Julian Lethbridge at Paula Cooper. (New York, New York)

From the street, a quick glance through the gallery window at Julian Lethbridge's paintings gave the impression of loose webs of lines in a gray wash, perhaps owing a debt to the web structures of Brice Marden's "Cold Mountain" paintings. Much of Lethbridge's iconography is indeed reminiscent of Marden's, but closer inspection reveals profound differences. Lethbridge's work is much more materially dense and gesturally slower; it is also more "artificial," in that his images allude to appropriated sources. In fact, some of his seemingly spontaneous linear systems are repeated through shifts in scale from picture to picture, suggesting that he uses some projection ...

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