The first monographic close reading of Ashley Bickerton's influential early work.
The girls name “Susie” served as a trademark for Ashley Bickerton's work, he showed during the 1980s in New York until moving to Bali. His intriguing painterly and sculptural pieces derive from commodity aesthetics, marketing language and corporate culture. At the time they were shown in the context of the seminal group of artists – often referred to as "Neo-Geo" – consisting of Bickerton,
Halley, Koons and Vaisman at Sonnabend gallery.
Ashley Bickerton – Susie is the first monographic close reading of Bickerton's influential early work. Contributions by Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Fredi Fischli, Abigail Solomon-Godeau,
Bob Nickas, Niels Olsen,
Thomas Lawson and
John C. Welchman offer a wide range of critical views on his practice.
Awarded: “Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2014”.
Ashley Bickerton (born 1959 in Barbados, West Indies, lives and works in Bali, Indonesia) graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1982 and continued his education in the Independent Studies Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. A seminal figure in the East Village scene, Bickerton was one of the original members of a group of artists known as “
Neo-Geo,” and to this day, he remains an influential figure with a younger generation of artists. Over the last twenty-five years, Bickerton's work has been exhibited extensively in nearly every major museum around the world. His work can be found in numerous museum collections worldwide.
