The New Yorker has a piece today on Roe Ethridge’s new art show (bear with me) at the Andrew Kreps gallery in…New York. Ethridge is a postmodernist photographer whose new show, “American Spirit,” features photographs and a series called Pic ‘n Clip, which features “layered photocollages covered with disparate images, selected at random from a folder on his computer desktop that he’s been maintaining for a dozen years.” The images cover a broad spectrum:

Images of the art dealer Larry Gagosian (with whom Ethridge has shown) and the supermodel Kate Moss share space with imagery related to football (which Ethridge played in high school) and a webcam still of the surf report for the Rockaways (where Ethridge has a house). Look carefully and you’ll spot the artist himself, waxing his surfboard. My favorite inside joke is an image of the artist Matthew Barney as a young model for the sportswear brand Le Coq Sportif. It’s about as meta as it gets: an artist doing commercial work for the sake of his art (modelling fees supported Barney’s first projects).

One of the Pic ‘n Clip pieces has an image of children in a classroom, a couple of women, some nature shots, and three pictures of Joel Embiid.

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“Pic ’n Clip 3,” 2017.
Image via The New Yorker, courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery

JoJo may not win Rookie of the Year anymore, but when was the last time Malcolm Brodgon’s face hung on an art gallery wall?