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Jim Lambie: Anton Kern Gallery.(New York)(site-specific paintings on gallery floors)
Artforum International, June, 2004 by Schambelan, Elizabeth
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> "Too many stripes can finally drive you mad," Michel Pastoureau, the chief historian of this elemental pattern, has observed. But how many is too many? Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie seems determined to find out. Since 1999, Lambie has been completely covering gallery floors with vinyl adhesive tape placed edge to edge, creating site-specific paintings that transform ordinary spaces into Saul Bass dream sequences and has garnered comparisons to figures as various as Daniel Buren, Bridger Riley, and, less often but more aptly, Gene Davis, Zobop, 1999-2003, is the best ...
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