Jim Torok
Sometimes I Think ‘Bad’ Things
Acrylic on Panel
https://www.jimtorok.com
PIEROGI Gallery, New York
Jim Torok, born 1954, lives and works in New York
“Jim Torok’s painting This Is a Major Work is at once a sincere chronicle of one artist’s struggle and a hilarious send-up of art-world pretensions. It is also, like all of Torok’s cartoon work, something of a high-wire act: he makes up his drawings and paintings as he goes along, riffing off the initial title, accepting his mistakes or boldly blacking them out. This refusal to revise distinguishes Torok’s work from most conventional comic-strip artists. It also seems of a piece with the quest for truth that gives his work an unexpected moral weight.”
– Raphael Rubinstein, Art in America, 2005