Bad Art

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Jacob Feige & Eva Struble

How Many fucking painters are making post-apocalyptic pantings that talk about landscape and rainbows? Please! I found this guy after I was looking up Eva Struble who also makes landscapes paintings, but who is collected by Saatchi, which makes her more important than Jacob. But I would argue that she probably sold to Saatchi because she went to Yale, and Mr. Feige hasn't yet because he went to Cranbrook. But I'm sure Lombard-Fried won't have a problem selling either one these decorators work because they both make great, easy-to-live-with, pretty paintings that will make them a decent living, but never really change anything. 

Jacobs work tries so hard to be hip, it does all the right things to stay safe and pretty. It's an academics dream come true, but he never leaves the art student realm. Nothing happens in the work. There is a Jacob in every Grad school in the country. He just happens to have a connection to this gallery, but at the end of the day... the work is just Boring.

Eva on the other hand is a better painter, but fall short in content, she attempts to have a point, but maybe she's just an abstract painter at heart. So many young artist (Eva 1981) feel they need to fill their work with phony content so they can come to terms with the fact they they just want to make an abstract painting, but can't. So... Eva, "just paint, therein lies salvation" -PC. From looking over Eva's resume I imagine she's a smart young lady (Brown Alum), with fat pockets (mom and dad)(well traveled), and if she's attractive, well... she will certainly continue to make her way in this art world. But if she wants to make any contributions she may have to choose to actually have an opinion or voice (ie. not just make beautiful landscape paintings), no one can get away with decoration forever.