Keith Boadwee

I can’t forget the first time I saw a painting by Keith Boadwee and Club Paint. A poodle tears a painting with its docile, useless jaws, its fur a kinetic, frenetic set of scribbled lines. The painting is called French Revolution. It is a funny painting, full of permission and delight. But it also keyed me into a fact of Boadwee’s painting that is not a joke. French Revolution, like many of Boadwee and Club Paint’s works, takes the piss out of Painting writ large, but its grammar is derived from that same tradition.

It is at once a study and commentary on the history of painting, and an utterl ...