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Article: Thomas Lawson: LA>
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- Artforum International
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- June 22, 2007
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As an artist and critic, Thomas Lawson (now dean of the School of Art at CalArts) was central to debates about the viability of painting at the turn of the 1980s. Yet his work has seldom been shown on the West Coast, making this recent exhibition of paintings, most of which were produced over the past two years, a rare opportunity to see how his practice and its politics have held up.
Lawson's new canvases are characterized by deadpan mottled surfaces and muted, at times grating, color combinations. Often based on maps, they render seas and continents as abstract patches of texture and tone. Still, echoes of flaglike shapes allude to a territorial world and offer ...
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...When Artforum called to propose looking back at "Infotainment," a 1985 touring exhibition of young, media-smart East Village artists, I had just returned from London, where I saw Tate Britain's "Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow." As I thought back to New York in the mid-'80s, it struck me that
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