Contemporary Art
Schwartz Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection
Michael Reafsnyder
(American, born 1969)
Good Day Sunshine, 2010
Michael Reafsnyder, Good Day Sunshine, 2010, acrylic on canvas. 35 x 48 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
"With oddball innocence, and a profound understanding of what matters in the long run—the artist's deeply mischievous works transform the all-thumbs awkwardness and ham-fisted incompetence they gleefully embody into a pitch-perfect, metaphor-mixing stew of a symphony: a user-friendly, come-one come-all cacophony in which eye-rolling excess gracefully segues into the eye-popping high jinx, which consistently opens onto head-spinning intrigue, spine-tingling thrills, and ultimately soul-expanding awe."— David Pagel, critic