Darren Waterston: Charles Cowles Gallery. (New York).(Brief Article)

Whatever else it may be, postmodern painting tends to be art-historically self-conscious, saturated with double entendres, and executed in an astute, "crafty" way: tightly controlled no matter how impulsive and free-spirited it may look, no matter how uncanny the associations it engenders might seem.

In such work it becomes impossible to separate the cognitive from the aesthetic. Darren Waterston's exquisite canvases fit the postmodern bill. They use biological imagery--not an overdone, semi-subjective biomorphism but a freshly objective sense of microscopic reality--to ...

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