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Article: Jack Pierson. (Luhring Augustine and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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LUHRING AUGUSTINE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Check in to jackness as into a hotel, because the jack in Jack Pierson has the same Schiaparelli dazzle as the jack in Jackie O., deep-lilac perfume of tragedy, too; spunk of jacking-off and of Jack Russell terriers; sweet immediac of porn, delicacy of violets, pansy expanse of Jack Smith. Jackness is a fraction, Diane Arbus divided by Diana Ross; all the roses here buzzing pink divided by all the roses long gone. Lover and ex in the same lovely body. Laughing until crying.
I wish all the pages about Pierson's esthetic of the pathetic, as if his work were only a blueprint of dejection, would burn up and blow ...
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...Visitors to Jack Pierson's recent show tripped a motion sensor ... Fantasies of celebrity have swirled through Pierson's art for well over a decade, and ... from Antiquity. As translated through Pierson's deliberately crude draftsmanship ...
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