Guy Richards Smit: Team. (Reviews: New York).(Brief Article)

Guy Richards Smit's latest exhibition opened with a bash on New Year's Eve, as if to announce that in 2002 art could be funny again. Reveling in self-parody, Smit's videos and related watercolors offered a deft mockery of the excesses, attitudes, and social pretensions of the New York art world.

This is familiar ground for Smit: In previous videos, he cast himself as his own artistic alter ego, Jonathan Grossmalerman ("big painter guy" in German), a narcissist with a high substance intake who spends more time in nightclubs than in the studio. Grossmalerman embodies the ...

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