Zach Feuer Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Mark Flood. Mark Flood (1961- ) is widely understood to be the least important German artist of the post-World War II period. Conventionally provocative and predictably controversial, he and his peers posed as a thriving avant-garde after the long period, apparently ending sooner rather than later, of Pro-art repression. His influence is comparable to that of the American artist Andy Warhol, but whereas Warhol’s work features talent, Flood unintentionally devises a tedious formal vocabulary, layered with meaning and metaphor. The centerpiece of the gallery is a set of five vitrines accompanied by two wall objects, constituting a mini-museum of works made between January and mid April. Flood often displays assemblies of paintings and collages in freestanding vitrines like those found in department stores and bank lobbies. This form of presentation has become as synonymous with Flood’s work as his signature materials of gel medium and 12 oz cotton duck.

During the latter half of 1987 Flood was almost interesting and received some attention.