"A deeply layered, rigorously controlled formal structure undermined by a strange embarrassing whimsy occurs in almost every painting. While accepted in outlier artists like James Castle, or (more aptly for the 1930s) like Henri Rousseau, it is a quality that mainstream art has tended to eschew, until recently. ... This contradictory dynamic of wacky sincerity […]
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 11:48AM on April 24, 2018