In tomorrow's dead-tree edition, Joe Nolan sings the praises of Nashville art scene stalwart and
Zeitgeistcurator Lain York. I don't think I'll be spoiling anything by printing the Critic's Pick here a day early — York's talent for breaking down imagery into simple but dynamic components is fairly well established. He's an artist's artist, and while I've always found it hard to write about his work without veering into tangential ruminations on art theory and modernism, that's exactly what I love most about it — in front of one of York's paintings, it's difficult to avoid ideas about deconstructivism, minimalism, expressionism, and the ways they all link together.
If you're interested in the process of making art — of taking a line and turning it into something else — you'll want to see York's show before it closes on Jan. 26. He's given us some images of the show's installation, and I've posted those, as well as Joe's Pick on the show, after the jump.
