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Bindle Stiff

Matthew Rodriguez

It’s time for art to go grim again. Over the past few years, the popularity of artists such as Winnipeg’s Marcel Dzama and Portland’s own Chris Johanson has triggered an epidemic of work that situates itself within a decidedly inartistic tradition of cutesy cartoons and faux-naïf illustrations. But what actually makes Dzama and Johanson’s work […]

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