Dan Colen and Nate Lowman’s recent collaboration

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/saltz/saltz4-28-08.asp

This recent(ly read) article caught my eye. I was ready to jump at the negative article with enough enthusiasm to make the waterlillies appear contemporary. Although, instantly, I feel I've seen the exhibit before. Has the junk car filled with more junk surrounded with even more junk not already been done? What is Colen and Lowman telling us? We already know we are a wasted society built on waste driving waste-buckets. Do we need telling again?

Its like a revival of dungerees, nobody wants to see it, and only the losers truely embrace it. I'm not best pleased about these scrappy sculptures that seem to mimick a 90s trend that wore out quicker than you can say junkyard.

There is a small salvation in this exhibit, a small painting entitled "Sarah Morris (Brice Marden) or Bill Clinton," is a small graphic painting in a lime that is hearterly refreshing in an otherwise drab space. Its gorgeous text is easy to like and its sherbert graphics hint at something that is entirely missed at the rest of the show.

Shame.