Photo: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
via NYTimes, 3/28/08: SLIDE SHOW: The Armory Show, (Art Review: Smooth and Safe at Pier 94, by Roberta Smith)
Dominic McGill at Derek Eller.
At the Derek Eller booth, the manic master draftsman Dominic McGill meditates on modernism past and future, while adding collage to his arsenal in "Moloch." In this enormous, new, volcanic drawing-collage, the words of Baudrillard, Santayana, George W. Bush and many others collide and combust around a fiery newsreel-like cluster of magazine images, all red. Their shape is based on the flailing monster at the center of Max Ernst's "Fireside Angel," which was inspired by the rise of Franco. Mr. McGill has mustered a commensurately apocalyptic tone. He makes the end seem near, and for much more than just art fairs.
