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In his more than 30-year career, Jonathan Lasker (born 1948 in Jersey City, NJ and is now based in New York City) continues to discover new territory for abstract painting. The big, bold brushstrokes, lively squiggles, and bright colors in Lasker’s work seem to reveal an exuberant, playful approach to abstraction, but the paintings are anything but spontaneous. Working from small, meticulous studies to create what appear at first glance to be whimsical, offhand doodles, Lasker combines references to painters like Phillip Guston, Robert Ryman and Jackson Pollock with graffiti and cartoon imagery, investigating the various qualities of painting itself.
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