Bob and Roberta Smith

Patrick Brill paints slogans in a unique brightly coloured lettering style on banners and discarded boards of wood. The slogans are usually humorous musing on art, politics, popular culture, Britain and the world in general and they often support his activist campaigns, such as his 2002 amnesty on bad art at Pierogi Gallery, New York.

Bob and Roberta Smith makes paradoxical work in a variety of media. It is paradoxical because many of his individual pieces strike you as anarchistic and perhaps one-liners, but taken as a whole they reflect a rich, rather reassuring exploration.