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Article: Jake Berthot at Betty Cuningham.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Artist Jake Berthot is self-taught, he has said, mostly from looking at paintings in museums. He acknowledges the late Abstract Expressionist painter Milton Resnick as a mentor. At the beginning of his career in the post-Minimalist period, he, like his contemporary Brice Marden, aimed to return complexity and feeling to abstract painting.
His work from this time could run big. Walkins Ridge (1975-76), an oil on canvas work that was in the 1976 Venice Biennale and is now owned by the Museum of Modern Art, is five feet high and 18 feet long. Several interior rectangles, delineated by scratching into wet paint, appear retrieved from submergence in a field of ...