NEW SUMMER HOPE?
by randyyeoh, 07.12.02 09:42 am
Are there any new painters out in any group shows up that are worth checking out? Seriously, just names and the galleries where they are showing. I haven't seen too many intresting new painters.
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by randyyeoh (07.12.02 09:44 am)
My input would be Robert Heckes. Intresting stuff, not sure if it's terribly good, but intresting. (Postmasters)
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by Unbeatable (07.12.02 11:16 am)
Heckes? He painted banners. What's good about that? There's a painter at Fredrick Petzel Gallery called Michael Majerus. You have to ask to see the painting in the back office. They'll show it to you. he's good.
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by randyyeoh (07.12.02 11:39 am)
Cool, I'll check him out. Heckes isn't that great, i agree, the pickings are slim.
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by BPrevidi (07.12.02 02:23 pm)
Jeff Gaunt has a very kick-ass painting at Brent Sikkema.
If you're going to be in Chelsea, stop by and look at that one.
And the show at Matthew Marks is fantastic. "Something, anything" is curated in an almost stream of consciousness manner. Definitely someting I'd like to see more of.
The Michael Jenkins treasure chest is the standout for me.
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by jdavison (07.12.02 02:59 pm)
Jeff Gaunt's paintings are really good. Check out Brian Alfred's painting across the street at Max Protetch.
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by cutup (07.12.02 05:53 pm)
Just came back from Marks' group exhibition curated by Nayland Blake whose own work - a large and loud piece in the back room left me cold.But the rest of the show is a different matter.
I liked the shelf installation with the mix of old and new artists. It was great to re-view Walter Robinson's (now from Artnet) portraits from the early '80's particularly a self-portrait with his droopy bedroom eyes reminding me of the actor Michael Caine.
Most of all, I loved Katharina Fritsch's 'Witches House and Mushroom". The combination of architectural purity and gorgeous surfaces knocks me out.
Barbara Gladstone has a summer show called American Standard (Para)Normality and Everyday Life organized by Gregory Crewdson with an extraordinarily fresh painting by Maureen Gallace. There is a classic Stephen Spielberg photo from Close Encounters....which a friend said was the inspiration for Gregory Crewsdon's own work.
The press release states that this show "...traces a tradition in American art that explores the intersection of everyday life and theatricality." When you first walk in you see this terrific Edward Hopper painting which seemed out of place at Barbara Gladstone - like what is HE doing there. I liked the mix of historical and contemporary art in both shows.
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by BPrevidi (07.12.02 06:32 pm)
Liked the show at Glad Babs space, but can you please explain the Charles Ray piece?
Normally, I'm a big fan of his work, but that just wasn't happening for me.
Nayland's noisy piece in the back of MM was just his record collection. You, or anyone, can DJ back there for a couple of hours. You just have to sign up.
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by tagent (07.12.02 06:40 pm)
"The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner."
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by manly (07.13.02 12:44 am)
Anyone spend 3 hours to view Kutlug Ataman's film Never My Soul at Lehmann Maupin gallery about a Turkish transsexual who lives as a character who is a real-life diva of the Turkish cinema? Part documentary and part fiction - with lots of crossing over, literally.
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by all i got was this lousy (07.13.02 01:29 am)
The M.M. show was mad hot, a total hit. . I worked my way around the main room first and was totally knocked out by the work. The NB piece was Uber-retro-fabu-lisous audio can make or break a whole show. The wrong sound even for a minute can off set the whole experience and take everything else down with it - this music worked it dope wax selection. Over all it totally avoided feeling like a cliché cookie cutter survey of its subject. I had never seen most of the pieces before which is the opposite of every other group show this summer that I have been through. The bigger names blended right in for me. None of the pieces felt like they were doing battle at all. The stronger lifted the weaker and in turn the weaker complemented the stronger. As I entered the side gallery on the right I totally thought the sound was coming out of the cardboard boxes as sculpture. I was thrilled to see the live DJ, - every gallery should have a DJ!
The whole show didn’t feel like it was trying to hard it just was, and was it something or what! The J.W. film was the last thing I saw and it cracked me up and was the icing on a very tasty cake – total class act.
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by zxcvbnm (07.13.02 02:12 am)
paint? I love paint.
It smells good.It has color.
once it has dried,
it is of no use.
sad.
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by cutup (07.14.02 11:18 am)
What about which show at Deitch? Do you mean the one using working class laborers? It had not opened because of "problems" when I went on Thursday.
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by arthands (07.14.02 08:42 pm)
did anyone like the randy wray show at derek eller?although it was last month? i liked it better than his predictible sculpture..........
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by tagent (07.15.02 03:19 am)
"Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change."
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by BPrevidi (07.15.02 04:45 pm)
There's a nice Mark Dean Vaca drawing at DiChiara Gallery. There are also some small ones in back in the files. You'll have to ask the lovely and beautiful Ms. D to pull them out for you.
Randy Wrays's earlier paintings with macrame, cigarette butts and pasta were quite good. He seems to be going off on a more painterly tangent recently which has left me a little cold. He's still goo, though and worth looking at.
I went and saw the "Art Downtown" show at 48 Wall Street. The upstairs is nicely installed, the downstairs is not as well done. The Alex Katz wave painting is really good (I'm not generally a fan) and there's a fantastic Pat Steir waterfall from the early 90's which hangs across from a very. very, very good Louise Fishman painting (another artist I don't gush over usually).
The best piece in the show for me was the Kiki Smith sculpture downstairs. Amazing.
The show's up for another month or so I believe and it (along with the 25 Broad Street space) is open on Sundays as well.
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by randyyeoh (07.15.02 05:21 pm)
Did anyone else think that Sarah Sze's piece in 'Penetration' was amazing?
What's the verdict on Jon Pylupchucks paper works? I think they are sappy without being genuine. Is the heyday of purposeful crappy art behind us?
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by BPrevidi (07.15.02 05:32 pm)
What's purposeful crappy art? And what's the opposite of that?
Sarah Sze has done much better work than the piece at Penetration.
I think her Biennial installation was the finest piece she's ever made.
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by crash (07.15.02 06:24 pm)
bp
i think he's talking about the pathetic aesthetic in j.p.'s work
its trope is the 'untrained' look
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by randyyeoh (07.15.02 06:35 pm)
The 'opposite' is work which proports an effort to employ an average amout of skills which take the work past the 3rd grader aesthetic. If you don't look at his work and think, 'these are pretty crappy'..., your lying to yourself.
I thought the hole in the floor tying together those spaces was great. True, though. The biennial piece was awesome.
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by BPrevidi (07.15.02 07:18 pm)
I was a huge fan of the 'pathetic aesthetic'. Still am. Seward, Candyass and early Kilimnik made some of my favorite pieces from the 90's.
JP's work doesn't fall into that category, though, which may be why I'm not a fan. It's cute and all, what with the googly eyes and the courderoy (sp?), but it doesn't go much beyond that for me.
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by arthands (07.15.02 11:30 pm)
bprevdi....i also saw the wall st show and was also impressed with the pat steir painting...and equally provocative robert gober "red shoe". ...... robert kushner,s decoratively burning piece was so extreme it hurt... there were many mediocre works from major name brands......proving that a true painterly voice is rare indeed... this is the lesson of alfred jensen emerging so strongly at this historical moment.
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by BPrevidi (07.16.02 02:01 am)
Interesting that you liked the Gober shoe, but found much of the other work mediocre. I actually found the red shoe to be a mediocre Gober.
I thought the quality was, in general, rather high. I'm really stuck on that Fishman painting. I don't think I've ever liked any of her canvases, but that one really grabbed me.
There was a painter downstairs that had a nice piece. Initially I thought it was Kushner, but it was someone I'd never heard of, and now I cannot remember his name.
One of the more grating moments was the room filled with the poorly drawn, terribly painted pictures of presidents. I'd never heard of Laurie Munn before, but I'll not forget her for a while.
Did you see the photo portion of the program? That was hideous. Installed like an arcade auction, it only reaffirmed that the recent photo explosion produced little work of any merit.
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by fsz9999 (07.16.02 06:54 pm)
Dana Schutz has two paintings up at LFL Gallery on 26th St.