Peter Liversidge: Rare. (New York).

In his first one-person show in New York, British artist Peter Liversidge reproduces internationally known signiflers like the logos of Lufthansa and BMW with a childlike clumsiness that strips all slickness from the corporate icons. He makes no bones about his limited skill as a draftsman: In a 1999 catalogue for a show at A22 Gallery in London, the artist complained, "I really am trying...but I just can't paint these products the way the manufacturers would like to see them."

Yet perfection is scarcely the objective. Unlike, say, Warhol's uncanny realistic ...

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