Veröffentlicht am 19.11.2013
James Kalm cut his Sunday morning
reverie short to pedal his bike into Manhattan for a last chance to
catch a glimpse of this select show of Dark Paintings" by Lester
Johnson. As a young painter, Kalm was struck by the imagery and
technique of Johnson's "Bum" paintings. Having started out as an
Abstract Expressionist, Johnson veered in to a brutal figuration a
decade before the likes of Philip Guston. While never receiving the
recognition of the later Neo-Expressionists, he did however, have a
committed core group of painting fans who sang his praise. As an
influential educator (He taught at Yale for years) and despite a status
as art world outlier, this work has recently begun to receive attention
from a younger generation of artists who value his urgency and humanity.
This exhibition features works from Johnson's "Dark" period in the
early 1960s.
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