Romance

This episode of Art 21 focuses on artists working on the theme of romantic ideals: Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittman, Laurie Simmons and Frenchman Pierre Huyghe. Judy Pfaff creates a balance between intense planning and improvisational decision-making. Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman's meticulously layered paintings transform patterns and signage into opulent, intricate scenes. Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as living objects, animating a dollhouse world infused with nostalgia and colored by an adult's memories, desires, and regrets.