LARRY POONS.(Brief Article)

SALANDER-O'REILLY GALLERIES

For many, the name Larry Poons will never signify anything but his classic dot paintings of the early '60s. For a smaller, more dedicated band, Poons is equally the maker of the rather mad agglomerations of paint and heterogeneous matter that occupied him in the '80s and '90s when he was operating somewhere below art-world radar (and perhaps somewhat unwisely leading the informe bandwagon). Members of either group are probably surprised by Poons's extraordinary new paintings, dominated as they are by what has always been a recessive aspect of both ...

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