los angeles | kayne griffin corcoran | ken price | 15/3/2014 > 3/5/2014 Informed by his Southern childhood, Tweddle drew liberally from the “low art” traditions of cartoons and comic books while mounting an intellectually rigorous exploration of capitalism, iconography and the counterculture revolution. The resultant work bold, primal, deliberately naive drew upon an authentic American experience far removed from the cultural loci of New York. However, as the decade wore on and Tweddle found himself more deeply entrenched in the artistic establishment, his canvases evinced a growing concern with the interplay of art and commerce. By 1980, Tweddle had retreated from New York’s cultural milieu, preferring instead to work in relative isolation. The paintings on display, completed between 1968 and 1986, capture a particularly fertile period in the artist’s career. In Grace Glueck’s review of his 1983 exhibition at the Blum Helman Gallery, she notes that Tweddle’s “structure is iconic, usually consisting of a vignette with a narrative subject, ringed by formal borders that incorporate a ll manner of signs and symbols.” Central among his recurring motifs is the dollar sign, which serves as a visual shorthand for Tweddle’s own discomfort with the commodification of art. Tweddle arranges these symbols of contemporary culture into intricate and meticulously plotted patterns reminiscent of patchwork quilting, Navajo tapestry and aboriginal bark painting. Thus rooted in folk art tradition, Tweddle’s rough edged brushwork and dusty palette of ochre and green render icons of the American landscape with a dark and chaotic complexity. Opening Saturday MArch 15th 2014 at 6p.m. Kayne Griffin Corcoran 1201 South La Brea Avenue Los Angeles CA 90019 web kaynegriffincorcoran/downloads/exhibitPressRelease/65.pdf kaynegriffincorcoran/exhibition/view/65/untitled/ map https://google/maps/place/Kayne+Griffin+Corcoran/@34.053188,-118.344093,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1e2cba5fd1d09abc
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