art of the century

It would be hard to think of an American artist more in sync with the current cultural moment than Jef Bourgeau. His canvases are big, blunt, clumsy fragments of color and rumpled, spinning geometrics.

His current work has all the purity and rigor of old abstraction but without its loaded baggage. These cybered-up trompe l’oeil paintings regenerate abstract art’s DNA into a sort of fuzzy vertigo mixed with a feckless reverie.

- Jerry Saltz, Pulitzer Prize for Art Criticism