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	John Currin. (Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City) - Encyclopedia.com
		Maybe Currin is like a wannabe hobbyist painter chronically afflicted with talent: try as he might, he will never be able to truly unlearn the skills that pay the bills.
		Currin's paintings suggest a passage from significance to irrelevance that does not promise a return passage to significance--this is their anxiety.
		Refreshingly, Currin has abdicated responsibility for complying with the imagined protocols of either the putative vanguard or the rearguard, supposing that they had already leaked their secrets to each other, and that now there was very little at stake in preserving even the symbolic difference between the two.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-15484729.html (669 words)

	The New York Times: Premium Archive
		Currin is not the first to recognize the cheap pathos that is in these vacant, ritual images, as there also is in magazine advertisements and pornography.
		Currin seems to enjoy the mildly creepy, fetishistic absurdity of his anachronistic women and their subtle subterfuge: that nude reclining beside three spent phallic candles looks at first like Mantegna's ''Dead Christ,'' which is probably what you are meant to assume.
		Currin's bearded playboys, a kind of human Billy goat; he wears an argyle sweater-vest and big-collared shirt, the cliché of a vacationing art professor, circa 1980, with his glass of wine and bowl of spaghetti.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDB143BF932A15752C1A9659C8B63 (1121 words)

	Whitney Museum of American Art: First Solo U.S. Museum Exhibition Of The Paintings Of John Currin To Travel To The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1962.
		John Currin will be accompanied by a catalogue – the artist's first major monograph – with color illustrations of more than 70 works, co-published by the MCA and Serpentine in association with Abrams.
		John Currin is on view at the MCA from May 3 through August 24, 2003, and at the Serpentine Gallery, London, from September 9 through October 26, 2003.
	www.whitney.org /information/press/130.html (754 words)

	Artblog.net - john currin
		I ascribe John Currin's success to the fact that he uses traditional painting methods to make bitter statements about the tradition of painting.
		I tried to give Currin a shot as a satirist along the lines of Paul Cadmus, an underrated painter who skewed all kinds of human foibles while producing some of the best figure drawings of the 20th Century.
		Currin is a wooden draughtsman by comparison and since his target is art, his art is about art.
	www.artblog.net /index.php?name=2003-12-18-22-24-currin (281 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - Defending John Currin
		Currin is that rare and special brand of artist from whom each individual piece incites a special lust from each individual collector; in his generation, he is matched solely in this regard by Elizabeth Peyton.
		This was Currin's series about a Swiss lust muffin and one painting depicted the lass at the bottom of a clothed stack that seemed to be her family.
		Currin is conservative in the best sense of the world: he seeks to perceive what is authentic within the purview of his bent vision, and what is authentic to Currin is the unclassifiability of desire and the conviction that all life is essentially erotic.
	www.artnet.com /magazine/features/finch/finch11-10-03.asp (493 words)

	www.likeyou.com - John Currin - Serpentine Gallery, GB-London
		This survey of Currin's work, his first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the United Kingdom since 1995, traces the development of his career from his early paintings of women and couples, to his idealised nudes inspired by old master paintings, to his scenarios of suburban or domestic life.
		Currin began his career in the early 1990s, at a time when painting, which was considered to be steeped in tradition, was a less prominent artistic medium than video, photography and installation work, which were seen as more progressive and challenging.
		Currin was deliberately reactionary, not only in terms of making figurative paintings, but also against prescribed notions of political correctness that dictated what was considered acceptable artistically, socially, and politically.
	www.likeyou.com /archives/john_currin_serpentine_03.htm (517 words)

	Maureen Mullarkey: John Currin; Whitney Museum
		Currin's gay men are icons of domesticity, devotional in tone and tender as Della Robbia madonnas.
		Currin's popularity resides precisely in his distance from painting and his proximity to TV culture.
		The phenomenon of John Currin testifies to Postman's prescience.
	www.maureenmullarkey.com /essays/currin.html (754 words)

	Amazon.de: John Currin: English Books: John Currin,Robert Rosenblum,Staci Boris,Rochelle Steiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Currin is currently generating the kind of buzz that purchased publicity alone can't account for, and it's easy to see why: his paintings' smoothly executed combination of droll social commentary, offhand reference to old masters and va-va-va-voom sexuality is hard to look away from-and easy to argue about.
		Currin is his own best advocate here; his long interview with Rochelle Steiner-bluntly plainspoken, knowledgeable and entirely pleased with the fuss his work has caused-candidly reveals an engaging and unashamed artist on the make.
		John Currin's paintings sit at the crossroads where Old Master painting technique and 20th-century kitsch collide.
	www.amazon.de /John-Currin/dp/0810991888 (523 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - Reaction Shot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Currin, Nov. 20, 2003-Feb. 22, 2004, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. John Currin may be the perfect artist for this administration: He's a compassionate conservative.
		Currin's accomplishment is not his crackerjack craftsmanship; it's the way he reinserted ideas about "quality" into the artistic conversation.
		Currin is neither a storyteller nor an illustrator.
	deathstar.artnet.com /magazine/features/jsaltz/saltz2-10-04.asp (856 words)

	John Currin by Raichel Le Goff
		Currin's models are often smiling as girls do when self-consciously caught by the camera, this feature serves to distance them from their renaissance prototypes.
		Currin also plays at varying the anatomy of his contemporary models elongating the breasts and broadening shoulders to lend them an individuality not aspired to by Cranach or Durer or their contemporaries like Hans Baldung Grien.
		My guess is that Currin is just using the visual vocabulary of the German sixteenth century masters to add a quirky twist to his female nude and the contemporary faces that smile from his canvas make that old master world less forbidding, less intellectual for his modern audience.
	epublishingcorp.com /articlesRaichel/20thCentury&contemp/Currin.html (529 words)

	John Currin
		Currin, who had recently completed his M.F.A. at Yale University, was living in Hoboken, N.J., and trying to figure out how to break into the New York art world.
		What Currin offers is not social critique but satire lite: familiar images of upper-middle-class life overlaid with a veneer of art-historical seriousness Simultaneously snide and ingratiating, the paintings sneer at the social milieu of the art-viewing public while appealing to individual viewers' vanity and erudition—which may account for the work's broad popularity.
		This year, the name on everybody's lips is John Currin, whose midcareer retrospective recently arrived at the Whitney Museum.
	www.kunstwissen.de /fach/f-kuns/b_postm/currin00.htm (480 words)

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		Currin’s immorality has taken the form of a peculiarly weird brand of figuration during a decade of American art that he helped shape.
		In both cases, Currin deflates the fearfulness and drama of his historical sources, opting to record a sort of blithe calmness instead, perhaps in representation of his own painterly joy: Blond Angel, for example, stares out smilingly where Caravaggio paints a severed head, while Odalisque peeks out flirtatiously behind a pair of unrealistic, cartoony feet.
		One cannot help but think, however immoral the thought, that Currin’s series of elaborate and shifting quotations are chiefly a game, an intellectual ruse that permits him to lavish an amazing amount of painterly attention on, say, creamy female flesh or a pair of striped gardening gloves.
	www.nypress.com /14/47/art (1046 words)

	Mondays: Monday Night -- 03.29.04 -- Defending Privilege: A Political Reading of John Currin's Paintings. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Currin may be the perfect artist for this administration: He's a compassionate conservative.
		Currin's pants are smeared with white paint, which could be explained with reference to the fat snowflakes in the painting.
		The catalogue places an exquisite portrait that Currin painted of his wife in 2002 as a marker, dividing the plates into two sets that could for the most part have been done by two different artists, so far at least as painterly touch and pictorial manner are concerned.
	www.16beavergroup.org /monday/archives/000817.php (4306 words)

	Art Critic London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Currin's portraits of the rich and privileged, beautifully exposing the emptiness of their existence, place him among the greatest of contemporary American artists, says Richard Dorment
		Currin's mature career began in the mid-1990s with a series of simple, low-toned portraits of imaginary women.
		In many, it is as though we are playing a game with Currin called "What is wrong with this picture?" In a double portrait of a suburban couple, Currin somehow makes us see that what is missing from their lives is imagination.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /artcritic/level1/reviewarchive/2003/03_09_10_currin.html (1025 words)

	John Currin Review
		Currin’s paintings are so blandly tasteless, that their resemblance to average pornography is in itself the ironical statement.
		Currin seems to enjoy the mildly creepy, fetishistic absurdity of his anachronistic women and their subtle subterfuge.” That group of paintings from the mid 90s mostly place voluptuous (to the point of disbelief, at times) women against empty backgrounds in vulnerable positions that suggest their sexual submission.
		Currin’s paintings seem to challenge these women to realize that they are not as special as they think they are.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~djbromle/modern04/allisond/index.htm (2700 words)

	Currin Events - artnet Magazine
		John Currin, Nov. 11-Dec. 22, 2006, at Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. Around 1998, John Currin began his rise to the top of every collector’s wish list and commenced his descent into slick, fussy, quasi—Northern Renaissance academicism.
		Currin’s surfaces died, as did the conversation around his work, which came to revolve almost entirely around technical issues.
		Currin’s new canvases are devices that allow him to experiment with the physicality of his work and explore the natural fissure that exists within his art between radicality and conventionality, humor and creepiness, anger and affection, conviction and towering ambivalence.
	www.artnet.com /magazineus/features/saltz/saltz12-18-06.asp (1207 words)

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		I liked the fact that Currin was doing figurative painting, which for a long time wasn't where it was at, and that his work had a sense of humour.
		The cover turned out to be quite unusual for Currin because he's a painter and the images he ended up producing are photographs.
		Currin's paintings have moved on a lot since I first saw his work.
	members.lycos.co.uk /pulp/currin.html (655 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Exhibitions \| John Currin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Currin is an alumni of the prestigious Yale University where he received his MFA in 1986 and since then his star has risen fairly quickly.
		Currin describes them as “completely passive” a reaction against the earlier paintings where he felt that the harsh, minimalist backgrounds were like acts of violence.
		Currin is too clever and calculating to be unaware of the reaction these paintings would cause, and he concedes “There was an opportunity to make provocative paintings.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=258 (845 words)

	John Currin
		John Currin’s current show at Gagosian NY finally takes on hard core porn and treats it to gentle caricature in drawing, a broad brushed scrub in painting.
		Currin is not content here with simply incorporating caricature, as occurs in say a Peter Saul or a Peter Howson, but with making these aspects uncomfortable with other parts of the picture, pressing differences until parts are either ‘poor’ or ‘bad’ or belong to different styles, as in The Wizard.
		Currin then switches to more relaxed brushwork and scenes of contemporary domestic life, such as Park City Grill (2000) and Thanksgiving (2005) but essentially the greater the finesse, the milder the joke.
	www.currentartpics.com /john-currin (828 words)

	A painter in midcurrent: the recent survey of John Currin's paintings gave viewers in New York, Chicago and London an ...
		In some ways this midcareer retrospective of John Currin's paintings felt like a throwback to the 1980s, when the Whitney routinely mounted big shows of the hot artists of the moment, even though it was the Chicago MCA and London's Serpentine Gallery that organized this exhibition.
		Looking at how John Currin's paintings have developed since 1989, one is struck by the artist's growing technical skills as a figurative painter.
		Although Currin identifies strongly with painters of the past, the historical figure he seems to resemble most is not an artist but a writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_6_92/ai_n6080478 (950 words)

	Gagosian Gallery - John Currin
		In his earlier career, Currin distinguished himself by painting controversial depictions of female subjects, from drab menopausal women to ebullient big-breasted girls.
		Currin's latest series of compelling and contentious paintings attests to his continuing exploration and elaboration of the history of figurative art.
		John Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1962 and obtained a B.F.A from Carnegie Mellon University (1984) following by a M.F.A from Yale University (1986).
	www.gagosian.com /exhibitions/madison-avenue-2006-11-john-currin/images (388 words)

	Gagosian Gallery - John Currin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Currin was born in 1962 in Boulder, CO. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from Yale University.
		John Currin's work draws upon a broad range of cultural influences that include Renaissance oil paintings, 1950s women's magazine advertisements, and contemporary politics.
		Currin's paintings and drawings are the subject of a 2006 monograph, to be co-published by Rizzoli and Gagosian Gallery.
	www.gagosian.com /artists/john-currin (153 words)

	MCA Chicago: Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Currin is best known for his paintings of women, many with features that have been distorted or exaggerated.
		John Currin will be on view at the Serpentine Gallery, London, from September 9 through October 26, 2003, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from November 20, 2003 to February 22, 2004.
		John Currin will be accompanied by a catalogue — the artist's first major monograph — with color illustrations of more than 70 works, copublished by the MCA and Serpentine in association with Abrams.
	www.mcachicago.org /MCA/About/Press/JohnCurrin.html (822 words)

	JOHN CURRIN
		John Currin: If you are asking whether my work is a kitsch pastiche of historical references meant to be put together as an amusing riddle the answer is no. I don't intend the art historical references in my work.
		John Currin: My lack of a developed conscious style has always been a source of great anxiety and insecurity for me. I worry that it is the great weakness of my work.
		John Currin was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1962.
	www.flashartonline.com /OnWeb/pg_John_Currin.htm (1742 words)

	John Currin: Boomerang
		To see in Currin's work a return of the repressed — a noxious phrase, admittedly, often sloppily used, especially in art criticism — is not to take a psychological stab at whatever goes on in the artist's head, but simply to describe something that happens in his paintings.
		This is a difficult question, since Currin obviously has a hallmark style, and yet the art to which it is most often compared — in spite of the manifold influences of Courbet, Manet, Boucher, Fragonard, et al — is thrift-store painting, i.e.
		For Currin, style is neither timeless nor timely — he often derides the tendency to see art as a mere reflection of the era in which it was produced.
	supervert.com /essays/art/john_currin (4332 words)

	John Currin: Reflections on Contemporary Society (CUJAH)
		Currin exaggerates the proportions of the female body and sometimes renders it with a heavily painted face to illustrate how beauty is a construction of society.
		Currin is making use of pre-existing stereotypes about homosexual men and offering them back to the public by using notions of the public and the private, the former being dominated by men—the latter, by women.
		Currin’s provocative portraits of homosexual men are testament to a rejection of stereotypical gender roles.
	art-history.concordia.ca /cujah/pieces/2-john-currin-reflections-on-contemporary-society.html (2425 words)

	Guardian \| John Currin
		Currin, whose early paintings presented themselves as an affront to both political correctness and all-American values, always wants to have it both ways.
		Looking at Currin's mid-career retrospective, the viewer is torn, both recoiling and wanting to get up close - without ever wanting to be one of those connoisseur types who go on about the paintwork because you too would feel like a character in a Currin.
		Currin's art also makes me think of American novels, though they are more often compared to movies.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4750049-110432,00.html (323 words)

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