Artist of the Week

William Crump- This New York based painter has his finger firmly on the pulse of prolonged adolescent angst. He embraces "pop standards" such as athletics, dancing, and courtship in an effort to find the origin of suburban collective experience. While his work is instantly familiar, thanks to sitting room patterns and washed out pastels the color of your first girlfriend's makeup, it is unnerving almost as quickly. It makes me feel vulnerable and anxious and juvenile, reminds me of unfullfilled potential, like I just struck out to end the Little League season. Or when the popular guys have the best jobs and prettiest wives at the 15 year reunion. Crump's brushwork is perfectly suited to this subject matter-confident and translucent, dreamy and vague. Now showing at Evoke Gallery(see above)