Flavorwire, the site offering “cultural news and critique from Flavorpill,” has published an interview with “Younger Than Jesus” cocurator. Here is an excerpt:
FW: Did you encounter anything unexpected about this generation when you were putting together the show?
MG: Well, there were a lot of things. When you look at young artists you expect them to be messy and confusing. I think that’s a patronizing assumption that many people who are older than young artists make. We weren’t coming across artists who were making messy, chaotic work. There are a lot of artists in the exhibition who are making very finished, very beautiful work. There is also very “mature” work — whatever that means. I think that these were the biggest surprises and we were very thankful that our patronizing assumptions were questioned and ultimately criticized by the work itself. As you go through the show there are many recurring themes and many more than we expected when we started….
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