Veering away from the excess of his earlier paintings toward the cool demeanor of his breakout Neo-Geo works, Ashley Bickerton has created an emotionally ambiguous body of work about the sea.
Ashley Bickerton's current New York gallery show of new, often elaborately framed workds—at once colorful, exuberant and bizarre—suggests that a "quiet" life in tropical Bali has stoked his visual ima…