http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/10/22/buttons-part-two-of-two/ As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:09:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/10/22/buttons-part-two-of-two/#comment-46518 Retard Riot Fan Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:10:04 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/10/22/buttons-part-two-of-two/#comment-46518 The paper rod / retard riot buttons you mention are made by artist Noah Lyon. He's not known to make a button or two. He makes thousands. He's pressed like 50,000 of them by hand. Not only that he's made 1000's of designs. He was making paintings out of them long before Ian Wright. He is represented by a Scandinavian gallery so maybe that's why you haven't seen his button paintings. He has shown them other places though... You really should check out his stuff though it goes way beyond "I hate Clocks" When you see the Retard Riot button paintings (I saw them at Printed Matters last NY art Book Fair) You can see that they are part of a much larger body of work that is extremely thought out. Outward appearances can be deceiving and oddly enough Retard Riot is highly conceptual. When you see the narrative of Noah Lyon's work it makes Ian Wright's button paintings look pretty gimmicky. The New Museum has tons of Retard Riot buttons so take a second look. And definitely go to the next Noah Lyon show, hopefully there will be one soon. They usually sneak up by surprise. The paper rod / retard riot buttons you mention are made by artist Noah Lyon. He’s not known to make a button or two. He makes thousands. He’s pressed like 50,000 of them by hand. Not only that he’s made 1000’s of designs. He was making paintings out of them long before Ian Wright. He is represented by a Scandinavian gallery so maybe that’s why you haven’t seen his button paintings. He has shown them other places though… You really should check out his stuff though it goes way beyond “I hate Clocks” When you see the Retard Riot button paintings (I saw them at Printed Matters last NY art Book Fair) You can see that they are part of a much larger body of work that is extremely thought out. Outward appearances can be deceiving and oddly enough Retard Riot is highly conceptual. When you see the narrative of Noah Lyon’s work it makes Ian Wright’s button paintings look pretty gimmicky. The New Museum has tons of Retard Riot buttons so take a second look. And definitely go to the next Noah Lyon show, hopefully there will be one soon. They usually sneak up by surprise.

]]> http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/10/22/buttons-part-two-of-two/#comment-46530 Art Fag City Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:18:16 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/10/22/buttons-part-two-of-two/#comment-46530 Perhaps not obviously enough, "a button or two" was meant to indicate the giant vat of buttons they had available at the book fair. I thought most of them weren't thought out well enough. I haven't seen the paintings. Also, you're right about Ian Wright and I would go one further by saying the button paintings look gimmicky on their own. I've mentioned this in previous posts I think. Perhaps not obviously enough, “a button or two” was meant to indicate the giant vat of buttons they had available at the book fair. I thought most of them weren’t thought out well enough. I haven’t seen the paintings. Also, you’re right about Ian Wright and I would go one further by saying the button paintings look gimmicky on their own. I’ve mentioned this in previous posts I think.

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