Larry Johnson’s LA mash-up of Pop Art and gay vernacular

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The split between the aesthetic and intellectual levels of Larry Johnson’s work is a dichotomy the California-born artist welcomes. But unlike much art that makes a spectacle of words, Johnson is in the business of subversion rather than critique, and manages not to fall prey to more well-trodden ideas that art and criticism are mirrors of each other. In an interview some years ago he argued the reason abstract painting exists is because people inherently like to look at nothing, and for an artist whose irreverent work so often conflates word and image, he is happy to enter the vacant realm of decoration.

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