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Article: Dennis Kardon: Mitchell Algus.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Veteran artist Dennis Kardon (his first solo exhibition was in 1981) is more intellectual, in his willingness to play with painting's syntax, than such peers as John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage. And if their work has tended to broad irony, his veers toward the humorously strange.
Kardon's past output includes a series of hand-painted figurative reliefs, titled "Jewish Noses," that were modeled from life, and a series of closely observed oil-on-canvas renditions of the bare backs of various friends and acquaintances. Both series reveal a preoccupation with giving the viewer an experience of discomfiting intimacy. Kardon expanded on this psychological theme after ...