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Air Supplied, ,

Author

Cross

Year

2018

Publisher

Punctum Books

Language

English

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Link

Last Update

21-May-2026

Keywords

Art & Art History

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Artist David Cross’ projects have an exacting, merciless feel, yet they incorporate a particular aesthetic abundance, as if attempting to bring together an amalgam of art and cultural references and get them to explode into a panoply of manifold sensory phenomena. Artworks foisted upon the viewer, not strictly at their own expense, but as a generous admission of how much we enjoy confronting our funhouse fears and maddening nightmares. Much can be elicited from this act of confounding hybridity. As with any act of creative synthesis, I could, as a diligent professional art critic and historian, enact a dissection of...