Filed under: Video | Tags: Christie's, Forrest Bess, James Kalm, Loren Munk, Whitney Biennial
We are pleased to present a new video from James Kalm, aka the painter Loren Munk. In this installment, James provides “…this program for hard-core Forrest Bess fans only. As one of the most mythic and eccentric American painters of the Twentieth Century, Forrest Bess (1911-1977) exerts a force over contemporary art that is hard to measure. Working in isolation and on a small scale, he was nonetheless able to garner the attentions of critical and art world heavyweights. With his inclusion in the Whitney Biennial of 2012, in an installation curated by Robert Gober, and the presentation of a cache of mostly late paintings from Texas, this program records over twenty-six minutes of paintings, possibly documenting twenty-five percent of his life’s output.”
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Filed under: Video | Tags: Andrea Rosen Gallery, James Kalm, katy moran, Loren Munk
We are pleased to present another video “gallery visit” from James Kalm, aka the painter Loren Munk. In this installment, James provides “…a quick view of the new paintings by Katy Moran. Small, scrappy and authentic, these works seem to echo the influences of early American masters of modernism. Among those nuances are Ryder, Dove, and the assemblage works of Rauschenberg, Berman and Lauri. However these references never overshadow the uniqueness of Moran’s personal practice.” The video was shot at the Andrea Rosen Gallery during Moran’s solo exhibition in May and June of 2011.
Filed under: Art World, Video | Tags: Corinna Belz, Gerhard Richter, nowness.com
We saw this awesome video of Squeegee master, Gerhard Richter, on NOWNESS.com and had to share. The film is by Corinna Belz. Enjoy!
From the NOWNESS.COM website:
A New Film Captures the German Impasto Master at Work with His Squeegee
The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting. Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter’s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical abstract works. As we witness him mixing layer upon layer of bold primary colors, smearing the wet paint with a giant squeegee and scraping at the surfaces of the canvases, Richter’s masterpieces appear before our eyes. “You get the feeling the paintings are staring at you,” says Belz, who met the painter while filming his vibrant pixelated stained glass window for the Cologne Cathedral. “There’s a physicality to Richter’s paintings. I wanted the viewer to become immersed in the subtly suspenseful cycle of the process.” Belz’s poetic film coincides with Richter’s 80th birthday and a major retrospective at London’s Tate Modern spanning five decades of his varied work.
Filed under: Art World, Video | Tags: Andrew Masullo, Feature Inc., James Kalm, Jerry Saltz, Loren Munk, Steven Zevitas Gallery
We are pleased to present another video “gallery visit” from James Kalm, aka the painter Loren Munk. In this installment, James visits the 2010 Feature Inc. exhibition of Andrew Masullo’s work in New York’s Lower East Side. Andrew has had a 25+ year career making paintings that are notable for their intimate scale and and sophisticated use of color and form. Largely ignoring the trends and fads that have washed over the art world in the past two decades, Andrew has steadfastly produced a highly personal body of work that now seems more relevant than ever. Don’t miss the shout-out from New York-based art critic Jerry Saltz at 7:48, and if you want to see more images, please check out the current exhibition of Andrew’s work at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston.
I ran into this video interview of Philadelphia’s Charles Burwell (NAP #8 and #51) in his studio while researching his work. In 2008 the Pew Fellowship granted Burwell a fellowship for his paintings that are “..large scale formally rigorous and visually stimulating.” All true.
His abstractions are grounded by layers. Repeated images, often with strong outlines, form open ended icons that, depending on the canvas, can thrust forward or retreat. His interest to sequential rows of strong colors means his canvases are an energetic space. Their dynamic interactions contradict how slowly each layer is settled. They turn into tangles of historic visions, none overly dominant and none neglected.
The numerous blank forms Burwell uses as templets allow him unlimited variations. The resulting visual constructions are like architectural layouts. Each perceptive space sketches a different state of mind but also a different structure that forms the final facade. His mention of how slowly buildings are constructed, points to this reading of his work. Rather than building a living room in one motion, he builds the infrastructure that supports the space that will become a living room, but not before arranging the supports for the later work he will need to finish. Just like how a complete building can’t be seen from one room, Burwell’s entire composition cannot be seen from one brush stroke. You have to walk around to see what form each space takes. - John Pyper, MA Contributor
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John Pyper is an art nerd, writer, and intermittent curator based in Cambridge MA, He is a contributor to DailyServing.com, Printeresting.org, and ArtWrit.com.
Filed under: Art World, Spotlight, Video | Tags: Anton Kern Gallery, James Kalm, Loren Munk, Mark Grotjahn
James Kalm, AKA the well respected New York City-based painter Loren Munk, has been a well known figure in the New York City art world for years. When he is not painting, James is often busy visiting the dozens of gallery shows that open each month in Chelsea and New York’s other gallery districts. For the past several years, he has made a series of videos that document his gallery visits and offer those not living in New York the opportunity to have a “visit” themselves. Take a stroll with James as he visits Mark Grotjahn’s recent exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery:
Filed under: Art World, Los Angeles, Noteworthy, Video | Tags: 91, Annie Lapin, Future Shipwreck, Graham Kolbeins, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based artist Annie Lapin has made a career out of taking something obvious and completely tearing it apart visually, and while her compositions might appear obscurely rendered, her talent is unmissable. The third in our New American Paintings/Video series with Graham Kolbeins of Future Shipwreck focuses on the studio practice of Annie Lapin, the recent winner of both our inaugural Reader’s Choice Poll and our first NAP Annual Prize.
Featured in edition #91 of New American Paintings as a Noteworthy artist, Annie’s work will be featured in a forthcoming solo show at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles.
Filed under: Art Fairs, Art World, Los Angeles, On the Road, Video | Tags: Aaron Spangler, Angles Gallery, Camilo Alvarez, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Country Club, Eric Charest-Weinberg, Iva Gueorguieva, Jessica Silverman, John Knuth, Katharine Mulherin, Lucky Dragons, Luke Butler, Luke Fishbeck, Matt Distel, Mike Bayne, Nicole Cherubini, Ooga Booga, Ryan McGinness, samsøn, Shannon Finley, Silverman Gallery, Wendy Yao
March Madness is here, and that can only mean one thing: art fairs. (And college basketball, I suppose.) As we at New American Paintings excitedly head to New York for The Armory Show, VOLTA, Pulse and the fairs this week, we’re reminded of how much fun we had at Art Los Angeles Contemporary recently. We teamed up with the talented Graham Kolbeins of Future Shipwreck—who last filmed Iva Gueorguieva in her studio—to interview dealers at Art LA and bounce from booth to shining booth. The result is a candid crop of gallerists revealing details about the work they’re exhibiting, and never-ending throngs of art-hungry visitors.
Dealers and featured artists include:
David Kordansky Gallery (LA): Richard Jackson
Camilo Alvarez (samsøn, Boston): Nicole Cherubini
Jessica Silverman (Silverman Gallery, SF): Luke Butler, Shannon Finley
Matt Distel & John Knuth (Country Club, LA): Ryan McGinness
Wendy Yao (Ooga Booga, LA): Luke Fishbeck (Lucky Dragons)
Angles Gallery (LA): Iva Gueorguieva
Eric Charest-Weinberg (Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami): Aaron Spangler
Katharine Mulherin (Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto): Mike Bayne
Susanne Vielmetter (LA): Olga Koumoundouros, Andrea Bowers
Allegra LaViola Gallery (New York): Jennifer Catron & Paul Outlaw
If you happen to be scouting out work at the New York fairs this weekend, don’t forget our Armory Arts Week Twitter Contest where you can win a free year’s subscription to New American Paintings just by tweeting about NAP artists while you’re out and about.
—Evan J. Garza, Editor-at-large
Filed under: Video | Tags: Future Shipwreck, Graham Kolbeins, Iva Gueorguieva
The work of LA-based artist Iva Gueorguieva is an elegant and controlled form of chaos, evoking movement at every possible turn. Gueorguieva’s paintings and collages clamor with so many visible points of entry that, when standing in front of one, it’s impossible to focus on any one place. (She also makes some really great noises when describing her work.)
The focus of this month’s Spotlight feature in edition #91 of New American Paintings, currently on newsstands, Gueorguieva opens up about her process, the importance of cutting in her work, and how something as simple as sound informs the paintings she makes.
For our first New American Paintings video production, we teamed up with blogger Graham Kolbeins of Future Shipwreck fame, who caught up with the Bulgarian-born artist recently while working in her studio. Enjoy! More videos coming soon! —Evan J. Garza, Editor-at-Large
Filed under: Video | Tags: 91, Conrad Ruiz, Future Shipwreck, Graham Kolbeins, Pacific Coast
Featured in #91, the forthcoming Pacific Coast edition of New American Paintings, available on newsstands next month, the work of Conrad Ruiz doesn’t take itself too seriously, and neither does he. Featuring a host of characters in mild to wild circumstances, Ruiz’s exciting work is one colorful and exuberant playground. Humor is as inherent to the work as the paint used to create it, and his compositions are often filled with subjects in oddly fantastic circumstances, like Obama riding a giant Corgy or smiling characters on the back of a great white shark.
Graham Kolbeins of Future Shipwreck recently caught up with the California artist while he was working on a mammothly scaled painting which he claims is the largest watercolor on Earth. Be sure to pick up #91 on newsstands in December!
