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Augen DeSoto

(503) 224-8182
716 NW Davis St.
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Monday November 23

Jim Riswold


Augen (DeSoto Bldg) Art People and a Cow is Jim Riswold’s affectionate skewering of the art world’s sacred cows. The artist presents Roy Lichtenstein as a yellow dot dressed in a suit and tie. He mocks Damien Hirst’s dissected formaldehydic cows by photographing a mold of Hirst’s face filled with hamburger. The piece’s title: Hirst Tartare. Riswold has always had fun with titles—who can forget his photo of a Ku Klux Klansman posing by a cross, titled Jesus Loves White People? But this outing, in addition to his witty titles, he has gilded the lily by over-explaining his in-jokes via explanatory texts, which accompany each title. A former marketing guru for Wieden & Kennedy, Riswold has a marketer’s gift for glib prose, but in this case, he should have trusted the viewer and let the images speak for themselves.  716 NW Davis St., 224-8182. Closes Nov. 28.

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Tuesday November 24

Jim Riswold


Augen (DeSoto Bldg) Art People and a Cow is Jim Riswold’s affectionate skewering of the art world’s sacred cows. The artist presents Roy Lichtenstein as a yellow dot dressed in a suit and tie. He mocks Damien Hirst’s dissected formaldehydic cows by photographing a mold of Hirst’s face filled with hamburger. The piece’s title: Hirst Tartare. Riswold has always had fun with titles—who can forget his photo of a Ku Klux Klansman posing by a cross, titled Jesus Loves White People? But this outing, in addition to his witty titles, he has gilded the lily by over-explaining his in-jokes via explanatory texts, which accompany each title. A former marketing guru for Wieden & Kennedy, Riswold has a marketer’s gift for glib prose, but in this case, he should have trusted the viewer and let the images speak for themselves.  716 NW Davis St., 224-8182. Closes Nov. 28.



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Mary Chomenko Hinckl  writes on Dec 31st, 1969 4:00pm

The abstract patterns create an energy and tension around the birds. The colors float, compress or explode around the bird. The ground of the work is an abstracted response to the image. Have another look.

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