What did Jerry Saltz call it in New York Magazine? “Zombie Abstraction” or that the art
world has been flooded with a glut of safe, drab, abstract paintings because
they are salable and reflect the taste of an older generation teaching in MFA
programs? I am pretty sure a Sam Moyer piece from this show was an illustration
for the Saltz’s piece. I don’t tend to disagree much with Mr. Saltz, and the
show did have an entire room of drab, forgettable abstractions. But in the back
room at Rachel Uffner, Moyer had a giant slab of marble on the floor mirrored
by a splotchy yellow and gray canvas hanging from the ceiling with a lighting
rig behind with light poring through it. I thought it was a pretty impressive
installation, and it took me a second to catch the canvas hanging from the
ceiling. I loved the scale and light through the canvas. Possibly Moyer’s
strength is more installation than painting?
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