Jonathan Horowitz
“Occupy Greenwich” at the Brant Foundation
A mix of Pop and conceptual art, Jonathan Horowitz’s work is provocative in an explicitly political way. Like the greats of Pop Art—Warhol, Lichtenstein—he appropriates pop-culture images in a celebratory, faux-naive way. But he also engages us in a cultural critique much as a conceptualist would. The works on display in “Occupy Greenwich,” an installation at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Connecticut leading up to the 2016 election are all from the eight years of Obama’s presidency. PROVOKR presents a few highlights for your perusal. They are alternately playful, coolly aesthetic, and deeply critical of our consumer society. The cumulative effect is of an elaborate fantasia timed for an election year. “I’m expecting and certainly hoping that Hillary will be the next president,” Horowitz told W Magazine, then added, presciently, “but with Donald Trump morphing on a daily basis, who knows what she’ll be up against? I’m sure a lot of Italians never imagined that Berlusconi would become their prime minister.”
