Artforum, March 1st, 2004
JOHN WESLEY FREDERICKS FREISER GALLERY John Wesley has always been hard to pin down. Linda Norden, curator of a recent exhibition of his work at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, has described him as a "not-quite-pop, faux-primitive Californian" as well as the "Henri Rousseau of his generation." In these pages in October 2.000, Dave Hickey opined that his "penchant for erotic narrative . . . defines Wesley as more an eighteenth-century fabulist." We can at least agree that the artist started to mine popular culture for imagery in the early '6os and used it to sexier and more eccentric ends than his...
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