Take The Mirror For Your Guide

shoutout little guys: Jasper Johns, Mirror’s Edge 2, 1993, encaustic on canvas, 66 x 44 1/8 in., apparently the Meyerhoffs are going to give it to the National Gallery of Art someday, wishing them a long life and all I was researching Jasper Johns’s two Mirror’s Edge paintings from 1992 and ’93, and sometimes it’s good to revisit the ancient texts. Such as the catalogue for MoMA’s 1996 retrospective, where Kirk Varnedoe and Robera Bernstein have tremendous essays with tantalizing notes and a low-key invasively detailed chronology. It’s online, but the endpapers are details of the spiral galaxy in this 1995 untitled lithograph. the 90s were Peak Spiral Galaxy for Johns. Mirror’s Edge, 1992 and Mirror’s Edge, 1993, facing off in MoMA’s 1996 Jasper Johns catalogue The two versions, one oil, the other encaustic, are not quite mirrored and not quite flipped; each layer seems to have been reoriented separately. With a practice that integrates printmaking so thoroughly with painting and…

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