Ashley Bickerton: Ornamental Hysteria Benjamin Moser The Guitar Man also saw

The Guitar Man also saw Weyant build on the motif of the dollhouse within and alongside images that undercut their subjects’ attempted composure with conscious awkwardness

and the second making direct reference to religious iconography

and trompe l’oeil pins depicted in the drawings suggest text chiseled in stone

the paintings interpret iconic LA locations through Israel’s take on noir aesthetics

Tomkins traces the artists’ individual efforts to create work that contends with the real world

Ashley Bickerton: Ornamental Hysteria Benjamin Moser The Guitar Man also sawThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Ashley Bickerton: Ornamental Hysteria at Newport Street Gallery, London. It documents the major surveywhich was drawn from Damien Hirsts Murderme collectionfeaturing work made by Bickerton over a period of some three decades, from his consumerist wall sculptures of the mid to late 1980s to the vivid and idiosyncratic mixed media paintings and sculptures of more recent years. In addition to