Philip Leider

May 6, 2024 | artforum.com | Philip Leider |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens

The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn’t that what it’s all about? —Frank Stella, in conversationBOTH ABSTRACTION AND LITERALISM look at Pollock for sanction; it is as if his work was the last achievement of whose status every serious artist is convinced.