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John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter based in New York City. He is most recognised for his technically proficient satirical figurative paintings that explore controversial sexual and societal topics. [1]
John Currin uses classical painterly techniques to portray highly charged social and sexual taboos. With inspirations as diverse as Old Master portraits, pinups, pornography, and B movies, he paints ideational, challengingly perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs to dour matrons.
John Currin is a contemporary American artist considered among the most influential painters working today. View John Currin’s 344 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
In his evolving depictions of the female nude, John Currin expertly mimics a number of distinct styles from art history, merging high and low source materials to produce works that succeed simultaneously as satire and homage.
Dec 13, 2021 · John Currin: American Painter of Beauty and Vulgarity. John Currin’s paintings balance a love of oil painting, in all of its stodgy, self-serious tradition, with contradictory humor and crassness.
Apr 22, 2009 · John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter based in New York City. He is most recognised for his technically proficient satirical figurative paintings that explore controversial sexual and societal topics.
There’s the passing moment, and then there’s eternity. Two different kinds of time in one painting. —John Currin. Gagosian is pleased to present Memorial, an exhibition of new paintings by John Currin. This is his first solo exhibition at the gallery in New York since 2010.
Sep 13, 2019 · John Currin is best known for painting women, and he has spent his summer on Mount Desert Island, Maine, doing just that: laying the groundwork for a new series of portraits of female...
John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter based in New York City. He is most recognised for his technically proficient satirical figurative paintings that explore controversial sexual and societal topics.
Learn about The Broad Collection artist John Currin. Drawing from sources as diverse as Northern Renaissance painting and pinup magazines, John Currin is known for his distortions of the human figure and critiques of societal ideals of beauty.
