Wayne Gonzales: Paula Cooper Gallery. (New York).(exhibition of photo-derived paintings)(Brief Article)

By addressing the complex relation between photography and the construction and dissemination of history, Wayne Gonzales's new work inserts itself in what appears to be a burgeoning genre: post-photographic history painting. Taking the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy as their point of departure, these photo-derived acrylics (all 2001 recall other recent art that has tackled politically weighty subject matter--Gerhard Richter's 18.

Oktober 1977 paintings, Luc Tuymans's Belgian Congo series, and, perhaps most pointedly, Andy Warhol's own chronicles of the Kennedy ...

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