KAWS (B.1974)

"Looking at KAWS’s paintings is to witness someone who very naturally approaches cartoons and abstractions as symbiotic languages of visual tropes. This is not a simple mixing of the cartoon figure with the abstract, but a blurring of the two, bringing to light the abstract nature of cartoons, as well as the figural possibilities of abstraction." (M. Auping, “America’s Cartoon Mind,” Where the End Starts: KAWS, Museum of Fort Worth, 2017, p. 71).