Have any of the rest of you also noticed how almost completely the well-nigh-immediate emergency of climate change has all but disappeared from the center of our concerns amidst the veritable niagara of other calamities our Dear Leader has merrily been visiting upon us, day in and day out? Well, thankfully, our old artist friend David Opdyke has been keeping his eye on the central plotline, and he is back with another show to remind us.
Veterans of the Stack may remember my piece on Opdyke in the Atlantic, around the time of the release of my book on the artist, as touched upon back in Issue 32A, on the occasion of the vernissage of the artist’s then-latest epic retouching of vintage postcards ranged in a feverish combine mural along the long wall at the Museum of Climate Change in Soho.
Well, Opdyke is back with yet another series of such labor-intensive, alarm-stoking and thought-provoking combines, this time at the Cristin Tierney Gallery on the 2nd floor at 219 Bowery in Manhattan, through May 10. The show features an array of tweaked single-card one-offs, retro images suddenly tapping clean into the anxious distemper of the current age:
