The Club

Robert Yarber

1988

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This black and white photograph shows a teenage boy sitting on a day bed with a girl lying down with her head on his knee. Both look directly at the camera. The wall behind contains numerous posters, such as one for The Barnes Foundation, an image of Courtney Love, and a Munch painting.
This work was painted in animated marks that register as pattern and act to blur distinctions between the figures and their setting. Young has imposed compositional order through a stacked vertical arrangement that builds from urban structures to a row of elongated linear figures, a procession that does not so much carry the huge figure above them as celebrate his ascension into the mountains at the top of the image.