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    Seeing Beyond the Tip of Your Nose

    by Lawrence Weschler May 04, 2018 4 minutes

    David Hockney, Grand Canyon II, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 48″ x 96″.

    David Hockney’s latest painterly passion, the results of which are currently on display at the Pace Gallery in New, consists of an elaboration of his ongoing fascination with reverse perspective, this time by way of notched hexagonal canvases, such as the one above. As I discussed in my catalogue essay for the show, this current round in his interest was in part spurred by his encounters with the thinking of an , but for my own part, I couldn’t help but be reminded of  the work of Trevor and Ryan Oakes, young identical twin artists whose ideas I’ve been following for several years (as has David, after I introduced them to him).

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