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One Fine Show: “Joyce Pensato” at ICA Miami

Her works push familiar cartoon icons toward abstraction, testing how much visual information can disappear before meaning collapses.

Recently, an art critic friend and I were discussing how much we’re dreading Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, and somewhere in the thread we started exploring the extent to which we liked the director at all. The critic said he will always have a soft spot for Inception, and I offered that I had to admire what he’d done with Batman. For a character with a relatively simple premise, people have been lining up over the decades to take a crack at him like he’s Hamlet. Adam West’s version has nothing to do with Ben Affleck’s, just as Frank Miller’s has little in common with Grant Morrison’s. And let’s not forget that he actually is Hamlet. Nolan went for Patrick Bateman mixed with George W. Bush, a perfect avatar for America at the turn of the millennium.

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