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Devin Troy Strother: Untitled, 2020. Oil and collage on canvas, 40 x 30 cm.
Devin Troy Strother works with a series of different media but especially with painting, and he belongs to this wave of New Bad Painting which was first seen in the US and now in Europe too. De-fining
for Strother’s painting is that the painting as a material is set in focus. The work points towards itself and shows hints of its creation: oil on either canvas or wooden board. Strother’s motives circle the composition between expressionistic abstraction and kitsch, cartoon-inspired figures which interact with the painted surface. It is easy to find lots of humor and ironic approaches to human depictions in Strother’s paintings but also present is the narrative of the racialized humans and those prejudices that are continuously connected with them.
Devin Troy Strother (1968, US) lives and works in Los Angeles, US. He has exhibited his works at Eighteen, DK; V1 Gallery, DK; Ruttkowski 68, FR; Nevven Gallery, SE; Over the Influence, HK; Martin Asbæk Gallery, DK; MOCA Westport, US; Richard Heller Gallery, DK, among others. Stroth-er has received the Art Center Scholarship, and his works are part of the collections at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, US; and The Studio Museum, US.
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