
A Fine Insanity: John Lees at Betty Cuningham
Thaddeus Radell | Art Critical | 24th November 2015
Frank Auerbach is not the only artist to endlessly rework canvasses. The American painter John Lees has been known to spend over a decade re-touching particular pictures. And Lees sees his intensely worked surfaces as integral to his paintings. “If the paint does not go bumpity bumpity, what’s the point?”